[827] Lore and Legend of the English Church, p. 63. The sanctity attached to objects connected with the church and churchyard is discussed in Gomme’s Folk-Lore as an Histor. Science, pp. 197-9.
[828] Evil Eye, p. 437.
[829] Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties, p. 145. Cf. The Golden Bough, I. pp. 193-207. The Incas preserve such relics and place them in the tomb. (Folk-Lore, VI. p. 301.)
[830] Folk-Lore, V. p. 343; VI. p. 301.
[831] Rationale Divinorum Officiorum, l. VII. c. 37.
[832] Prim. Culture, I. p. 495; Nature of Man, pp. 140-1.
[833] See e.g. Folk-Lore, XII. 1901, p. 211.
[834] Isaac Taylor, in Notes and Queries, 9th Ser. IV. p. 335.
[835] Taylor, loc. cit. Cf. O. Schrader, Prehist. Antiquities, trans. F. B. Jevons, 1890, p. 254. Certain passages in the Bible, e.g. Gen. xiii. 9, may be studied in this connection.
[836] Sir J. Rhŷs, Celtic Philology, 2nd edition, 1879, p. 10; Folk-Lore, XII. p. 211; I. Taylor, loc. cit.