[80.3] ii. Witzschel, 193.
[80.4] Frazer, i. Golden Bough, 258.
[81.1] Mannhardt, ii. Wald- und Feld-kulte, 414; Ralston, 244. I quote from Frazer, i. Golden Bough, 273, who follows Mannhardt. The authority both of Mannhardt and Ralston appears to be Afanasief.
[81.2] Meier, Sagen, 374.
[81.3] ii. Witzschel, 287, 293. I was not aware, or rather I had forgotten, when I wrote the above that Grimm had already pointed out that the common phrase: “The river-sprite demands his yearly victim,” pointed to actual human sacrifices in heathen times. Grimm, ii. Myth., 494.
[82.1] Jahn, Volkss. aus Pom., 144, 150.
[82.2] Wolf, Hess. Sag., 130, 129; Grimm, iv. Teut. Myth., 1430.
[83.1] Wolf, Hess. Sag., 129.
[83.2] Pluquet, 116.
[83.3] ii. Denham Tracts, 42, 78; Henderson, 265; ii. Parkinson, 106; Burne, 79.