[641] Alleluia was not sung during Lent. Fosbrooke, British Monachism, 56, describes the Funeral of Alleluia by the choristers of an English cathedral on the Saturday before Septuagesima. A turf was carried in procession with howling to the cloisters. Probably this cathedral was Lincoln, whence Wordsworth, 105, quotes payments ‘pro excludend’ Alleluya’ from 1452 to 1617. Leber, ix. 338; Barthélemy, iii. 481, give French examples of the custom; cf. the Alleluia top, p. 128.
[642] Dyer, 158. Reeds were woven on Good Friday into the shape of a crucifix and left in some hidden part of a field or garden.
[643] Dyer, 333. The village feast was on St. Peter’s day, June 29. On the Saturday before an effigy was dug up from under a sycamore on May-pole hill; a week later it was buried again. In this case the order of events seems to have been inverted.
[644] Frazer, i. 221. The French May-queen is often called la mariée or l’épouse.
[645] Frazer, i. 225; Jevons, Plutarch R. Q. lxxxiii. 56.
[646] Waldron, Hist. of Isle of Man, 95; Dyer, 246.
[647] Olaus Magnus, History of Swedes and Goths, xv. 4, 8, 9; Grimm, ii. 774.
[648] Grimm, ii. 765; Paul, Grundriss (ed. 1), i. 836.
[649] Frazer, Pausanias, iii. 267.
[650] Cf. ch. iv.