[124.1] Grimm, Teut. Myth., 1747; W. R. Paton, in v. Folklore, 277, citing three MSS. in his own possession. Aubrey (Gentilisme, 43) conjectures with plausibility that the sport called cocklebread is a relic of this.
[124.2] Owen, 142; Harou, 17.
[124.3] Feilberg, in iii. Am Urquell, 4.
[124.4] Von Wlislocki, Siebenb. Sachs., 57; iii. Am Urquell, 62.
[124.5] Wolf, Nied. Sagen, 367; Ostermann, 310.
[125.1] Von Wlislocki, Volksgl. Zig., 134; Volksdicht., 150; iii. Am Urquell, 12, 62, 93.
[125.2] Dörfler, in iii. Am Urquell, 269, 270. Cf. ibid., 3.
[125.3] Von Wlislocki, Volksleb. Mag., 141. Cf. Ostermann, 316.
[125.4] Von Henrici, in iv. Kobert, 92, 96; iii. Am Urquell, 4, 12, 13; iv., 98; Von Wlislocki, Volksleb. Mag., 69, 70, 71; Volksgl. Zig., 133; Volksgl. Mag., 142; Siebenb. Sachs., 203; Felicina Giannini-Finucci, in xi. Archivio, 453; Ostermann, 310; Rev. W. Gregor in letter to me dated 8th Sept. 1893; Bourke, 217, 218; i. Sax. Leechd., xlv., quoting the Italian philosopher Cæsalpinus; Strack, 8, 15, 17, quoting a medical work of the seventeenth century and other authorities; Leland, Etr. Rom., 294; v. Folklore, 277; Von den Steinen, 558. An analogous superstition at Siena, see G. B. Corsi, in xiii. Archivio, 475.
[125.5] i. Sax. Leechd., xlv., quoting the Shrift-book of Ecgbert, Archbishop of York; Strack, 15, quoting that of Theodore of Canterbury; Bourke, 217, 219, citing various authors; iii. Am Urquell, 268, 269; Von Wlislocki, Volksleb. Mag., 71; Rev. W. Gregor, in the above-cited letter, explains that this is the philtre referred to by him, op. cit., 86.