A misty May and a dropping June
Brings the bonny land of Moray aboon.
—Chambers, Popular Rhymes of Scotland, new ed., p. 269.
[105] Folk-lore, vol. vi., p. 306.
[106] Child, ut supra, referring to Miss Burne’s Shropshire Folk-lore, p. 539.
[107] Frazer’s Golden Bough, i., pp. 86, 88, and the authorities there cited.
[108] Hunter’s MSS. in the British Museum.
[109] Folk-lore, iii., 72.
[110] Frazer’s Golden Bough, 2nd edit., i., pp. 86, 88.
[111] Frazer’s Golden Bough, iii., 318. See also Hartland, Legend of Perseus, iii., 73 seq. Mr. Hartland shows how widely spread was the custom of offering sacrifice to water. As late as the beginning of the nineteenth century firstborn children, according to Mr. Crooke, were offered to the Ganges.