[337 ]A defensative against the poyson of supposed Prophecies, by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. London, 1583.

[338 ]Folk-Lore of China, p. 118.

[339 ] Tusser's Good Husbandrie, p. 13.

[340 ]Ibid., p. 13.

[341 ]Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England, p. 41

[342 ]David Copperfield. The "Charles Dickens" edition, p. 270.

[343 ] See An Historical Survey of the Astronomy of the Ancients, by the Rt. Hon. Sir George C. Lewis, Bart. London, 1862, p. 312.

[344 ]Popular Astronomy, by Simon Newcomb, LL.D. New York, 1882, p. 325.

[345 ] Primitive Culture, i. 118.

[346 ] Dennys's Folk-Lore of China, p. 32.