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[79] William Jones, Credulities Past and Present.
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[81] A. Wuttke, Der deutsche Volksaberglaube, p. 92.
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[83] Dr. H. Ploss, Das Kind in Brauch und Sitte der Völker, p. 122.
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[85] Natural History, book xxviii. ch. 81.