[134.1] Crooke, 42, quoting Cunningham, Archæol. Reports.
[134.2] Hunt, 177.
[134.3] Knoop, Posen, 276.
[135.1] Grohmann, 273, 274.
[135.2] Pröhle, D. Sagen, 194 (Story No. 141).
[135.3] ii. Am Urdsbrunnen, 28.
[135.4] Temme, Altmark, 38, 99, 100. In Upper Styria a grassy alp was covered with stones because some cowherds played at skittles with butter; but I do not understand that the cowherds themselves underwent transformation. i. Zeits. des Vereins, 215.
[136.1] G. C. Secchi, in i. Rivista, 514. Bérenger-Féraud, ii. Superstitions, 286, 309, 322, 371, et seq., gives a number of instances analogous to those mentioned in the preceding paragraphs, too often without mentioning his authorities. As an example in the legends of the Church, take the unhappy shepherd who betrayed Saint Barbara to her father. Wirth, 13.
[136.2] Antè, [p. 77]; xi. Rep. Bur. Ethn., 54. The similarity of this incident to those of European tradition where the mendicants are Christ and the Apostle Peter need hardly be pointed out.
[137.1] Suprà, vol. i., p. 118.