The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 02 of 12)

by James George Frazer

[279]. See above, pp. [47] sq.

[280]. Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Fest-Kalendar aus Böhmen, p. 217; W. Mannhardt, Baumkultus, p. 566.

[281]. A. Birlinger, Volksthümliches aus Schwaben (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1861-1862), ii. 74 sq.; W. Mannhardt, Baumkultus, p. 566.

[282]. Aristophanes, Plutus, 1054; W. Mannhardt, Antike Wald- und Feldkulte, pp. 222 sq.

[283]. Boecler-Kreutzwald, Der Ehsten abergläubische Gebräuche, Weisen und Gewohnheiten, pp. 112-114. Some traits in this story seem to suggest that the return of the trooper to his old home was, like that of the war-broken veteran in Campbell’s poem, only a soldier’s dream.

[284]. Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Fest-Kalendar aus Böhmen, pp. 86 sqq.; W. Mannhardt, Baumkultus, p. 156.

[285]. R. Chambers, Book of Days, i. 573. Compare the Cambridge custom, described above, p. [62].

[286]. W. Mannhardt, Baumkultus, p. 312.

[287]. W. Mannhardt, Baumkultus, p. 313.

[288]. Ibid. p. 314.