[34] Carthon. Ossian.
[35] "The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe," by W. and Mary Howitt. Vol. I., p. 99.
[36] Howitt. "The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe." Vol. I.
[37] An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians; by E. W. Lane, Vol. I, p. 311.
[38] Adventures in the Libyan Desert, p. 22.
[39] B. I, ch. 13 and 16.
[40] Thorpe's Yule-Tide Stories. Bohn, p. 248. And Table of Contents, p. XIII.
[41] "The Fall of the Nibelungers," &c.; a Translation of the Nibelunge Nôt, or Nibelungenlied, by W. N. Lettsom, p. 59, St. 346, 347; p. 167, St. 983.
[42] Thorpe. Op. cit. Table of Contents, p. IX.
[43] "The marvellous stories, the frightful tales, the threats, which were so long the apanage of infancy, would dispose the naturally impressionable mind to receive all the fantastic creations of the period. Now, it is said, the system is completely changed, and they are taught to ridicule these ancient beliefs. This argument would be unanswerable if they spoke of colleges and boarding schools; but they forget the servants to whom are confided the early years of infants; thus is the nursery always reviving fooleries, terrors, and frightful stories, in the middle of which the infant grows. I will content me with one example, that of one of the celebrated poets of England, Robert Burns. 'I owed much in my infancy,' says this writer, 'to an old woman who lived with us, and who was extremely ignorant, and remarkably credulous and superstitious. No one in the country had a larger collection of tales and songs respecting devils, fairies, ghosts, sorcerers, magicians, jack-o'-lanterns, hobgoblins, phantoms, apparitions, charms, giants, dragons, &c.