[11] (The souls of all unbaptized children.) Börner, Volkssagen, p. 133.
[12] A precisely similar superstition is mentioned in Mrs. Whitcomb’s recently published volume as existing in Devonshire. We shall meet Berchtl again in the neighbouring ‘Gebiet der Grossen Ache’ on our excursion from ‘Wörgl to Vienna.’
[13] Procula is the name given her in the Apocryphal Gospels.
[14] ‘It is now known that such tales are not the invention of individual writers, but that they are the last remnants—the detritus, if we may say so—of an ancient mythology; that some of the principal heroes bear the nicknames of old heathen gods; and that in spite of the powerful dilution produced by the admixture of Christian ideas, the old leaven of heathendom can still be discovered in many stories now innocently told by German nurses, of saints, apostles, and the Virgin Mary.’—Max Müller, Chips from a German Workshop.
[15] Compare Cox’s Mythology of the Aryan Nations, vol. ii. p. 364, and passim.
[16] Max Müller. Review of Dasent’s Works.
[17] Max Müller. Comparative Mythology.
[18] A tradition still held of the Berchtl in many parts of Tirol.
[19] Nork. Mythologie der Volkssagen.
[20] Abbé Banier. Mythology Explained from History. Vol. ii. Book 3, p. 564, note a.