[96] L’Initiation, 19ᵉ volume, April, 1893.
[97] J. C. Brown, LL. D., People of Finland in Archaic Times, p. 112.
[98] W. A. Craigie, Scandinavian Folk-Lore.
[99] T. F. Thiselton Dyer, M. A., British Popular Customs, p. 424.
[100] Mélusine, tome iv. p. 367.
[101] R. G. Haliburton, The Dwarfs of Mount Atlas.
[102] Dr. Ludwig Beck, Die Geschichte des Eisens, p. 879.
[103] A. Wuttke, Der deutsche Volksaberglaube, p. 263.
[104] For this legend, and for other information regarding the traditions and customs of the Bavarian and Tyrolese peasantry, the writer is indebted to Fräulein Helene Raff, of Munich.
[105] Crooke, p. 199.