[347 ]Folk-Lore; or, Manners and Customs of the North of England, by M.A.D. Novo-Castro-sup. Tynan, 1850-51, p. 11.
[348 ] Dyer's Folk-Lore, p. 42.
[349 ]Ibid., p. 41.
[350 ]Time's Telescope for 1814. London, p. 368.
[351 ] Dennys's Folk-Lore of China, p. 118.
[352 ]The Book of Days: a Miscellany of Popular Antiquities. Edited by R. Chambers. London and Edinburgh, ii. 203.
[353 ]The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey. Edited by his son. London, 1850, v. 341.
[354 ]Adam Bede, chap. xviii.
[355 ]Scottish Ballads and Songs. Edited by James Maidment. Edinburgh, 1868, i. 41.
[356 ]Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. Paisley, 1880, iii. 299.