[153.1] Dr. Krauss, in iii. Am Urquell, 276. In Silesia stones are put on the trees on Christmas Eve to make them bear the more. Grimm Teut. Myth., 1825.
[154.1] Ploss, i. Weib, 431, 432, 434, 445, citing various authorities. Compare Queen Isolte’s lily, referred to ante, [page 91]. What is the meaning of the attribution, widely spread in Europe, of children to trees or vegetables? See, for examples, iv. Am Urquell, 224 et seqq.; Zingerle, Sagen, 110; Finamore, Trad. Pop. Abr., 56. In England children are said to come out of the parsley-bed.
[154.2] Gen. xxx. 14. Early Trav., 434.
[155.1] Von Wlislocki, Volksgl. Zig., 90.
[155.2] Ploss, i. Weib, 439.
[155.3] Clouston, in Burton, iii. Suppl. Nights, 576, citing Pandit Natésa Sástri in Indian N. and Q.
[155.4] Southey, iii. Commonplace Bk., 20, 75.
[155.5] Von Wlislocki, Volksgl. Siebenb. Sachs., 54.
[156.1] Von Wlislocki, Volksgl. Zig., 13. Compare the story given in the last chapter, ante [p. 124].
[156.2] Krauss, Sitte und Brauch, 531; Ploss, i. Weib, 432, 440, 441, 443, 431, citing various authorities.