[ 14.] “Notes and Queries” (London), 3rd Series, vol. i. 446; Dyer, 408.
[ 15.] Frazer, “Adonis,” 250.
[ 16.] Dyer, 405 f.
[ 17.] Notes and Queries, 1st Series, vol. iv. 381; Dyer, 407.
[ 18.] C. S. Burne and G. F. Jackson, “Shropshire Folk-Lore” (London, 1883), 383.
[ 19.] Ibid. 381 f.
[ 20.] Quoted by Dyer, 410.
[ 21.] O. von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, “Das festliche Jahr der germanischen Völker” (2nd Edition, Leipsic, 1898), 390.
[ 22.] “Archivio per lo studio delle tradizioni popolari” (Palermo), vol. viii. 574.
[ 23.] Hörmann, “Tiroler Volksleben,” 189 f.