[61] Olaus Magnus’s “History of the Goths,” 1638, p. 47. See note to “The Pirate.”
[62] See Hardwick’s “Traditions and Folk-Lore,” pp. 108, 109; Kelly’s “Indo-European Folk-Lore,” pp. 214, 215.
[63] In Greek, ἑπι ῥιπους πλειν, “to go to sea in a sieve,” was a proverbial expression for an enterprise of extreme hazard or impossible of achievement.—Clark and Wright’s “Notes to Macbeth,” 1877, p. 82.
[64] “Discovery of Witchcraft,” 1584, book iii. chap. i. p. 40; see Spalding’s “Elizabethan Demonology,” p. 103.
[65] See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” vol. iii. pp. 8-10.
[66] Douce, “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” p. 245, says: “See Adlington’s Translation (1596, p. 49), a book certainly used by Shakespeare on other occasions.”
[67] See Henderson’s “Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties,” 1879, p. 181.
[68] See Pig, chap. vi.
[69] “Notes to Macbeth,” by Clark and Wright, 1877, p. 84.
[70] See Jones’s “Credulities, Past and Present,” 1880, pp. 256-289.