[161.1] Tuchmann, in vi. Mélusine, 109, quoting Rehatsek, Journ. Anthrop. Soc. Bombay.
[161.2] Clouston, in Burton, iii. Suppl. Nights, 576 note, quoting Pandit Natésa Sástri, Indian N. and Q.
[162.1] Von Wlislocki, Volksgl. Zig., 66. Wherever this work is cited, it must be understood, unless otherwise expressed, to deal with the Gipsies of the Danubian countries, where alone, the author says, they are unsophisticated.
[162.2] Von Wlislocki, in iii. Am Urquell, 7.
[162.3] B. W. Schiffer, in iii. Am Urquell, 147.
[162.4] A. F. Dörfler, in iii. Am Urquell, 269.
[163.1] Von Wlislocki, Volksleb. Mag., 77. According to the same author, the afterbirth of a boy or girl placed under the bed will ensure the procreation of a child of the same sex; but the husband must be careful which side he gets into bed—on the right for a boy, on the left for a girl. Ibid., 80.
[163.2] Von Wlislocki, Volksgl. Zig., 103.
[164.1] i. Lane, 393, 394.
[164.2] Brinton, Myths, 253.