Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan

by Clement A. Miles

[ 64.] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 393.

[ 65.] Tacitus, “Annales,” lib. i. cap. 50, quoted by Tille, “Y. & C.,” 25.

[ 66.] Tille, “Y. & C.,” 26.

[ 67.] Ibid. 52.

[ 68.] Ibid. 27.

[ 69.] Brand, 216 f.

[ 70.] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 401 f. For German Martinmas feasting, see also Jahn, 229 f.

[ 71.] Grimm, iv. 1838, for Danish custom; Jahn, 235 f., for German.

[ 72.] “The Folk-Lore Record” (London), vol. iv., 1881, 107; Dyer, 420.

[ 73.] MacCulloch, “Religion of the Ancient Celts,” 260.