[373] Malkin is a diminutive of “Mary;” “Maukin,” the same word, is still used in Scotland for a hare. “Notes to Macbeth,” by Clark and Wright, 1877, p. 75.
[374] Sternberg’s “Dialect and Folk-Lore of Northamptonshire,” 1851, p. 148.
[375] Henderson’s “Folk-Lore of Northern Counties” 1879, p. 206.
[376] Kelly’s “Indo-European Folk-Lore,” 1863, p. 238.
[377] Thorpe’s “Northern Mythology,” 1851, vol. iii. p. 32.
[378] Ibid., vol. ii. p. 32; vol. iii. pp. 26-236.
[379] See Baring-Gould’s “Book of Werewolves,” 1869, p. 65.
[380] Ibid., p. 66.
[381] Dyce’s “Glossary to Shakespeare,” p. 70.
[382] See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. iii. p. 39; also Wright’s “Essays on the Superstitions of the Middle Ages,” 1846.