[538] A trace of the old sacrificial eating?
[539] Gomme, L., Folklore as an Historic Science, p. 43.
[540] See Johnson, W., Byways of British Archæology. “Among the Saxons only a high priest might lawfully ride a mare,” p. 436.
[541] Faber, G. S., The Mysteries of the Cabiri, i., 220.
[542] Golden Legend, iv., 96.
[543] Is. xlv. 7.
[544] Quoted from Eckenstein, Miss Lena, Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes, p. 153.
[545] Keightley, Fairy Mythology, p. 285.
[546] The “one heap” of chaos was illustrated ante, [p. 224].
[547] Allen F. Romilly, Celtic Art, p. 78.