[25.2] i. Kathá, 86.
[25.3] Swynnerton, Ind. Nights, 188.
[25.4] Arany, cited by Köhler in his notes to Posilecheata, 209.
[25.5] Rodd, 266.
[26.1] ii. Risley, 89.
[26.2] Southey, iv. Commonplace Bk., 244, quoting a note to Boswell’s Shakespeare. The editor, Rev. J. W. Warter, says that the custom was common enough within his recollection in Shropshire and Staffordshire.
[26.3] Gerv. Tilb., 223, Liebrecht’s Appendix containing extracts from Jean Baptiste Thiers, Traité des Superstitions, 2nd ed., Paris, 1697.
[26.4] x. Archivio, 30.
[27.1] i. Child, 187, 201. Both variants of the Scottish ballad of Bonny Bee Horn also include the incident; and in one of them, not only does the ring change colour, but the stone bursts in three. ii. Child, 318.
[27.2] Thorpe, Yule-tide Stories, 438, from Müllenhoff. It is a German superstition that if a woman lose her garter in the street her husband or lover is untrue. Grimm, Teut. Myth., 1782, 1824. To lose the wedding-ring is a presage of death. Ibid., 1808.