[901] Dyer, 473.
[902] Hampson, i. 82.
[903] Gummere, G. O. 433.
[904] Tacitus, Germ. 45, of the Aestii, ‘matrem deum venerantur. insigne superstitionis formas aprorum gestant: id pro armis omnique tutela securum deae cultorem etiam inter hostis praestat.’
[905] Dyer, 439.
[906] Dyer, 492; Ashton, 204; Grimm, iv. 1816.
[907] Dyer, 481; N. W. Thomas, in F. L. xi. 250. Cf. ch. xvii for the hunt of a cat and a fox at the ‘grand Christmas’ of the Inner Temple.
[908] Dyer, 494, 497; Frazer, ii. 442; Northall, 229.
[909] Ashton, 114 (Reculver); Dyer, 472 (Ramsgate); Ditchfield, 27 (Walmer), 28 (Cheshire: All Souls’ day).
[910] Dyer, 486.