[87] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1855, part ii. p. 58.

[88] See Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties, pp. 324-325.

[89] Quoted in Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 444.

[90] See Ingram’s Haunted Homes, 1884, pp. 33-36.

[91] See Book of Days, ii. p. 287.

[92] Songs of the Russian People, p. 118.

[93] Quoted by Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology, 1872, ii. pp. 254, 255.

[94] Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco, Study of Folk-songs p. 10; Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, i. p. 289.

[95] Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties, p. 126; Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, ii. p. 211.

[96] See Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, pp. 48, 49.