[140.4] Liebrecht, in Gerv. Tilb., 240, quoting Thiers.
[140.5] Grimm, Teut. Myth., 1795.
[140.6] Temme, Volkss. Altm., 77.
[141.1] iii. Am Urquell, 55, 212; iv., 274. Hot embers on other excreta cause diarrhœa, in Italy at least. Zanetti, 58.
[141.2] De Mensignac, 110.
[141.3] Schiffer, in iii. Am Urquell, 53; Spiess, Obererz., 38.
[141.4] viii. Rev. Trad. Pop., 546.
[141.5] Addy, 125. The same superstition has recently been reported in the case of an old woman who died a few years ago at Mawgan in Cornwall. v. Folklore, 343. Compare the mythological reasons as to nail-parings, suprà, [p. 138], as to hair, [p. 133], and the Korean practice, [p. 136], note.
[141.6] J. B. Andrews, in ix. Rev. Trad. Pop., 113.
[142.1] M. Angelini, in xiii. Archivio, 21; Finamore, Trad. Pop. Abr., 129.