[12] Miscellanies, p. 131. Ed. 1857.
[13] Brand’s Pop. Antiqs. i. p. 21.
[14] Border Folk-lore, pp. 114, 172, 207.
[15] Kelly’s Indo-European Folk-lore, p. 132.
[16] Brand, vol. i. p. 210.
[17] Kelly, p. 301.
[18] Brand, i. 292.
[19] Henderson, p. 116.
[20] Lowell has written a good sonnet on this belief. See his Poems.
[21] Cockayne’s Saxon Leechdoms, &c. (Rolls series), vol. ii. p. 343.