My authorities for the customs quoted in the next few pages are (unless special references are given) Wuttke, Deutsche Volksaberglaube, §§ 725-756; Rochholz, Deutscher Glaube und Brauch, ii. pp. 170-173; and De Rialle, Mythologie Comparée, i. p. 125.

[33]

Weinhold, Altnord. Leben, 476.

[34]

The Lares are thus represented on a coin of the gens Cæsia. See Cohen, Méd. Cons., pl. viii, Cæsia.

[35]

Ovid, F., v. 129-147.

[36]

De la Saussaye, Religionsgeschichte, i. 281.

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