[ 17.] Dyer, 497 f.
[ 18.] Ibid. 498; Brand, 290.
[ 19.] Mannhardt, “Baumkultus,” 264 f.
[ 20.] Ibid. 265 f.
[ 21.] Ibid. 268.
[ 22.] Frazer, “Golden Bough,” iii. 129 f.
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[ 1 .] Rhys, “Celtic Folklore,” i. 320 f.
[ 2 .] Henderson, “Folk Lore of the Northern Counties,” 72.
[ 3 .] E. Thurston, “Omens and Superstitions of Southern India” (London, 1912), 17 f.