[ 53.] See Frazer, “Magic Art,” i. 52.

[ 54.] Cf. Frazer, “Golden Bough,” iii. 300 f.

[ 55.] Latin text in H. Usener, “Religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen,” part ii. (Bonn, 1889), 43 f. See also A. Tille, “Die Geschichte der deutschen Weihnacht” (Leipsic, 1893), 44 f. [Referred to as “D. W.”]

[ 56.] Philip Stubbs, “Anatomie Of Abuses” (Reprint of 3rd Edition of 1585, edited by W. B. Turnbull, London, 1836), 205.

[ 57.] Quoted by J. Ashton, “A righte Merrie Christmasse!!” (London, n.d.), 26 f.

[ 58.] Ibid. 27 f.[373]

CHAPTER VII.—ALL HALLOW TIDE TO MARTINMAS

[ 1 .] R. Chambers, “The Book Of Days” (London, n.d.), ii. 538 [referred to as “B. D.”]; T. F. Thiselton Dyer, “British Popular Customs” (London, 1876), 396 f.

[ 2 .] [Sir] J. Rhys, “Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as illustrated by Celtic Heathendom” (London, 1888), 514, “Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx” (Oxford, 1901), i. 321.

[ 3 .] Tille, “Y. & C.,” 57 f.