[44]. Jones and Kropf’s Folk-Tales of Magyars, p. 332 f.

[45]. Ralston’s Songs of the Russian People, p. 136 f.

[46]. See “Death Week in Russia,” in The Spectator (London), for June 18, 1892.

[47]. Jones and Kropf’s Folk-Tales of Magyars, p. 332.

[48]. On the testimony of a native Roumanian.

[49]. See, for example, Turner’s Samoa, pp. 21, 56 f., 74 f., 216, 241; also Strack’s Der Blutaberglaube (4th ed.), p. 39.

[50]. Griffis’s Mikado’s Empire, pp. 467, 470; also, Isabella Bird’s Untrodden Tracks in Japan, I., 392.

[51]. St. John’s Life in the Far East, I., 64, 157 f.

[52]. See London Folk-Lore Journal, II., 330 f.

[53]. Dr. Strean in Mason’s Statistical Account, or Parochial Survey of Ireland, II., 75.