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[ Harland and Wilkinson, Lancashire Folk-Lore, 1867, p. 210.]
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[ Tylor, op. cit. II. 139.]
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[ In Russia the souls of the dead are supposed to be embodied in pigeons or crows. "Thus when the Deacon Theodore and his three schismatic brethren were burnt in 1681, the souls of the martyrs, as the 'Old Believers' affirm, appeared in the air as pigeons. In Volhynia dead children are supposed to come back in the spring to their native village under the semblance of swallows and other small birds, and to seek by soft twittering or song to console their sorrowing parents." Ralston, Songs of the Russian People, p. 118.]
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[ Tylor, op. cit. I. 404.]
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[ Tylor, op. cit. I. 407.]