[250]Folkard, op. cit. p. 114.
[251]A. de Gubernatis, op. cit. vol. i. p. 99.
[252]J. Brand, Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain (London, 1849), vol. i. p. 58.
[253]W. Hone, Year Book (1878), p. 588.
[254]W. Henderson, Folk-lore of the Northern Counties, pp. 110, 111.
[255]J. O. Halliwell, Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales (1849), pp. 219, 220.
[256]C. H. Poole, Customs, Legends, and Superstitions of Staffordshire, p. 74.
[257]Goblet d’Alviella, op. cit. p. 169.
[258]Ibid. p. 171.
[259]Sir G. Grey, Polynesian Mythology (London, 1855), p. 1.