[32] The Classical Quarterly, October 1907, pp. 202 f.
[33] Op. cit. p. 66, the expression is Hartland’s.
[34] In the Targum of Isa. lxvi. 20, however, we have the noun kirkerān (fem. plur.) meaning “dances.”
[35] In Neo-Hebrew the word means “to dance.”
[36] In the Midrash Bemidbar Rabba to xx. 11 it is said: “When a man plans a sin Satan dances before him....”
[37] The underlying idea regarding the threshold has continued through the ages in many localities, witches having taken the place frequently of evil spirits. Walpurgis Night (the eve of May Day) is the special time for their activity, and leaping over the threshold is then a necessary precaution.
[38] Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 1887, p. 719.
[39] Notes on the Hebrew Text of the Books of Samuel, p. 173 (1890).
[40] In “Handkommentar zum A.T.,” Die Bücher Samuelis, p. 143 (1902).
[41] Reste Arabischen Heidenthums, pp. 109 f. (1897).