[27] Frazer, Golden Bough, iii., 238 et seq.
[28] Notes to Northumberland Household Book, 1770, p. 333.
[29] Quoted by Hazlitt.
[30] Much confusion has arisen with regard to the Holy Thursday in Rogation week because there is another Holy or Maundy Thursday in Easter week. Archæologists have also been often misled by the practice of many writers of describing the May festivals as midsummer festivals. The first of May, of course, marked the beginning of summer.
[31] Mr. Frazer informs me that the 13th August was Diana’s day at Nemi and there was a fire festival.
[32] Rhys’ Hibbert Lectures, p. 514.
[33] Celtic Folklore, p. 315.
CHAPTER XIX
SACRED FIRES
The magnificent collection of facts bearing on this subject which has been brought together by Mr. Frazer in The Golden Bough renders it unnecessary for me to deal with the details of this part of my subject at any great length.