[ 38.] Shakespeare, “Hamlet,” Act I. Sc. 1.

[ 39.] Bilfinger, 37 f.

[ 40.] Henderson, “Folk Lore of the Northern Counties,” 132.[378]

[ 41.] Tylor, i. 362.

[ 42.] W. Golther, “Handbuch der germanischen Mythologie” (Leipsic, 1895), 283 f.

[ 43.] Tille, “D. W.,” 173.

[ 44.] Henderson, “Folk Lore of the Northern Counties,” 132.

[ 45.] MacCulloch, “Guernsey Folk Lore,” 33 f.

[ 46.] Burne and Jackson, 396 f., 403.

[ 47.] R. T. Hampson, “Medii Aevi Kalendarium” (London, 1841), i. 90.