[176.2] vi. Mélusine, 154, quoting the Temps; 258, quoting Byegones.
[177.1] Zingerle, Sitten, 26. Ploss, i. Weib, 444, reproduces a photograph of one of these votive figures bought by the author in a wax-chandler’s shop at Salzburg as recently as 1890.
[177.2] Featherman, Nigritians, 139, quoting Hecquard.
[178.1] Ploss, i. Weib, 442, quoting Riedel.
[178.2] Winternitz, 23, 75; Schroeder, 123.
[178.3] Casalis, 265; Tylor, E. Hist., 109; M. Delafosse, in iv. L’Anthropologie, 444.
[179.1] vi. Mélusine, 231, quoting Doolittle.
[179.2] Pliny, Nat. Hist., x. 51. See also Ælian, Nat. Anim., xvii. 15. As to the power of flowers to imprint themselves by their smell on the fœtus, see Vasconcellos, 201.
[179.3] v. Mélusine, 248.
[180.1] Pliny, Nat. Hist., viii. 67; Aug. Civ. Dei, xxi. 5.