[157] Ancient Cures, Charms, and Usages of Ireland, pp. 163, 164.
[158] See notes to Crofton Croker’s Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, where much curious information will be found on this subject.
[159] Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 437.
[160] Zoological Mythology, ii. p. 218.
[161] Folk-songs of the Russian People, p. 118.
[162] Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 23.
[163] Ibid. p. 42.
[164] Miss Bird’s Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, i. p. 380.
[165] Occult Sciences, 1855, Elihu Rich, p. 188.
[166] For works on this subject may be consulted, Colin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire Infernal; the Malleus Maleficarum of the Germans; Del Rio’s Disquisitiones Magicæ; and Occult Sciences, paper by Elihu Rich, pp. 189-191.