[240]Ammian. Marcell. L. 31.

[241]Tacitus, Germ. x.

[242]E. Davies, Celtic Researches, p. 812; British Druids, p. 43.

[243]R. Smith, op. cit. p. 179, note 5.

[244]The whole subject is very fully treated by Bötticher, op. cit. chap. xvi.

[245]Mannhardt I. p. 303.

[246]De Vallemont, Physique occulte (1696), p. 10.

[247]Folkard, op. cit. p. 113.

[248]John O’Neill, The Night of the Gods, vol. i. p. 53.

[249]Frazer, op. cit. vol. ii. p. 367.