[57] Primitive Culture, ii. p. 29; Douce’s Illustrations of Shakespeare, pp. 450, 451.

[58] Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties, p. 126, note.

[59] Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, ii. p. 166.

[60] See Gregor’s Folk-lore of North-East of Scotland, p. 68.

[61] Edited by C. S. Burne.

[62] Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco, 1886, Essays in the Study of Folk-songs, p. 8.

[63] Study of Folk-songs, p. 2.

[64] Study of Folk-songs, p. 8.

[65] Ralston’s Songs of the Russian People, p. 121.

[66] Study of Folk-songs, p. 21.