Footnote 738: [(return)]

Leland L. Duncan, "Fairy Beliefs and other Folklore Notes from County Leitrim," Folk-lore, vii. (1896) pp. 181 sq.

Footnote 739: [(return)]

(Sir) Edward B. Tylor, Researches into the Early History of Mankind, Third Edition (London, 1878), pp. 237 sqq.; The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, ii. 207 sqq.

Footnote 740: [(return)]

For some examples of such extinctions, see The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, ii. 261 sqq., 267 sq.; Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild, i. 311, ii. 73 sq.; and above, pp. [124] sq., [132-139]. The reasons for extinguishing fires ceremonially appear to vary with the occasion. Sometimes the motive seems to be a fear of burning or at least singeing a ghost, who is hovering invisible in the air; sometimes it is apparently an idea that a fire is old and tired with burning so long, and that it must be relieved of the fatiguing duty by a young and vigorous flame.

Footnote 741: [(return)]

Above, pp. [147], [154]. The same custom appears to have been observed in Ireland. See above, p. [158].

Footnote 742: [(return)]

J.N.B. Hewitt, "New Fire among the Iroquois," The American Anthropologist, ii. (1889) p. 319.

Footnote 743: [(return)]

J. Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie,4 i. 507.

Footnote 744: [(return)]

See above, p. [290].

Footnote 745: [(return)]

William Hone, Every-day Book (London, preface dated 1827), i. coll. 853 sq. (June 24th), quoting Hitchin's History of Cornwall.

Footnote 746: [(return)]

Hunt, Romances and Drolls of the West of England, 1st series, p. 237, quoted by W. Henderson, Notes on the Folk-lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders (London, 1879), p. 149. Compare J.G. Dalyell, The Darker Superstitions of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1834), p. 184: "Here also maybe found a solution of that recent expedient so ignorantly practised in the neighbouring kingdom, where one having lost many of his herd by witchcraft, as he concluded, burnt a living calf to break the spell and preserve the remainder."

Footnote 747: [(return)]

Marie Trevelyan, Folk-lore and Folk-stories of Wales (London, 1909), p. 23.