[114.1] R. Scot, 66; Wolf, Nied. Sagen, 346; Monseur, 92; Harou, 54; Tuchmann, in vi. Mélusine, 89; iv., 320; C. Dirksen, in iv. Zeits. des Vereins, 324. An Italian woman whose milk was deficient enclosed a drop or two in a nutshell, with similar results on the witch. Ostermann, 376.

[114.2] Georgeakis, 342.

[114.3] i. Rivista, 386, 462, 935; vi. Mélusine, 108.

[115.1] Leland, Etruscan, 360, quoting the Secolo of Milan for 3rd March 1891. See also ibid., 282, 359, 361; Ostermann, 519. Midnight is in general the proper time for performing the ceremony of boiling.

CHAPTER X NOTES

[118.1] Von Wlislocki, Volksgl. Zig., 134.

[118.2] ii. Laisnel de la Salle, 24.

[118.3] H. Prahn, in i. Zeits. des Vereins, 182.

[119.1] Von Wlislocki, Volksgl. Zig., 134.

[119.2] Ibid., Volksleb. Mag., 34; iv. Kobert, 82.