[431] Jahn, 14, and for classical parallels Frazer, ii. 315; Pausanias, iii. 288; Jevons, Plutarch, lxix. 143. Grant Allen, 292, was told as a boy in Normandy that at certain lustrations ‘a portion of the Host (stolen or concealed, I imagine) was sometimes buried in each field.’
[432] Frazer, ii. 318; Grant Allen, 337; Jevons, 206.
[433] F. L. vi. 1.
[434] Frazer, ii. 319; Jevons, 214; cf. the πάνσπερμα at the Athenian Pyanepsia.
[435] In the Beltane rite (F. L. vi. 2) a bit of the bannock is reserved for the ‘cuack’ or cuckoo, here doubtless the inheritor of the gods.
[436] Grimm, iii. 1240.
[437] Elton, 428.
[438] Grimm, i. 59; Gummere, G. O. 455.
[439] V. Hehn, Culturpflanzen, 438.
[440] Grimm, i. 44, 48, 53; Golther, 561; Gummere, G. O. 459; Schräder, 422; Mogk, iii. 388; Meyer, 199, and for Keltic evidence Elton, 270. Many of these examples belong rather to the war than to the agricultural cult. The latest in the west are Capit. de partib. Saxon. 9 ‘Si quis hominem diabolo sacrificaverit et in hostiam, more paganorum, daemonibus obtulerit’; Lex Frisionum, additio sup. tit. 42 ‘qui fanum effregerit ... immolatur diis, quorum templa violavit’; Epist. Greg. III, 1 (P. L. lxxxix, 578) ‘hoc quoque inter alia crimina agi in partibus illis dixisti, quod quidam ex fidelibus ad immolandum paganis sua venundent mancipia.’