[7] Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 433; Brinton’s Myths of the New World, p. 253.

[8] Harland and Wilkinson’s Lancashire Folk-lore, 1867, p. 210.

[9] 1st S. i. p. 315.

[10] Cf. ‘Nexosque resolveret artus,’ Virgil on the death of Dido. Æneid iv. 695.

[11] See Dalyell’s Darker Superstitions of Scotland, p. 302, and Notes and Queries, 1st S. iv. p. 350.

[12] Ibid. i. p. 467.

[13] 1st S. iii. p. 84.

[14] Kelly’s Indo-European Folk-lore, pp. 127-128.

[15] Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 43.

[16] In a note to Redgauntlet, Letter xi.