[112] Child, ut supra, citing Annales Monastici, ed. Luard, ii., 346 seq.
[113] Odgers on Libel, 1896, p. 445.
[114] “Item dicunt quod quædam terra quæ fuit Leonis judei dampnati pro morte pueri crucefixi quam Willelmus Badde tenet in parochia Sancti Martini est eschaeta domini Regis ab anno regni R.R.R. xljo, et valet xxs per annum.—Rotuli Hundredorum, i., 322. There is a similar entry a few lines below.
[115] See Golden Bough, ii., 45 seq., and especially the citations from Numbers and Exodus on p. 46.
[116] A Yorkshire version, much debased, is given in the first edition of Henderson’s Notes on the Folk-lore of the Northern Counties of England, p. 333. It was collected by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould.
[117] Told to me by Sarah Ellen Potter, aged 14, the daughter of Mr. George Potter, of Castleton, Derbyshire, in 1901. Compare Grimm’s Kinder-und Haus Märchen, No. 47, and Addy’s Household Tales, No. 10.
[118] Told to me by Florence Cooper, of the Peak Hotel, Castleton, Derbyshire, in 1901. A much inferior version called “The Golden Arm” was collected by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould in Devonshire. It is printed in the first edition of Henderson’s Folk-lore of the Northern Counties.
[119] Cf. Pythagoras and his golden leg, referred to by Frazer, Golden Bough, ii., 418; also the story about Isis, who, when she collected the scattered limbs of Osiris, replaced the missing member with one of wood.—Plutarch, Isis et Osiris, 18.
[120] See Laxdæla Saga, 17 and 24. For another version of this story see Mr. Le Blanc Smith’s article in the Reliquary (new series), vol xi., p. 228.
[121] I do not understand this word.