Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan

by Clement A. Miles

[ 3 .] J. A. MacCulloch, “The Religion of the Ancient Celts” (Edinburgh, 1911), 278.

[ 4 .] Frazer, “Dying God,” 266.

[ 5 .] E. Anwyl, “Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times” (London, 1906), 1 f.

[ 6 .] Ibid. 20; cf. E. K. Chambers, “The Mediaeval Stage” (Oxford, 1903), i. 100 f. [Referred to as “M. S.”]

[ 7 .] W. Robertson Smith, “Lectures on the Religion of the Semites” (New Edition, London, 1894), 16.

[ 8 .] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 236; W. W. Fowler, “The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic” (London, 1899), 272.

[ 9 .] “The Works of Lucian of Samosata” (Eng. Trans. by H. W. and F. G. Fowler, Oxford, 1905), iv. 108 f.

[ 10.] John Brand, “Observations on Popular Antiquities” (New Edition, with the Additions of Sir Henry Ellis, London, Chatto & Windus, 1900), 283.

[ 11.] “Works of Lucian,” iv. 114 f.

[ 12.] Ibid. iv. 109.