[1037] Book of Archery, p. 330. Cf. T. S. Knowlson, Origins of Pop. Superstitions and Customs, 1910, pp. 222-5. (General question discussed.)
[1038] R. Warner, Collections for a History of Hampshire, 1795, I. p. 105 n.
[1039] Book of Archery, p. 332.
[1040] Ibid. p. 329.
[1041] Pop. Antiquities, II. p. 263.
[1042] Giraldus Cambrensis, Topog. Hiberniae, dist. III. c. 10, p. 739 in Camden’s edition, 1602. Cf. D. Rock, Church of our Fathers, ed. G. W. Hart and H. Frere, 1903, II. pp. 262-3.
[1043] Cf. Translation by T. Forester, in T. Wright’s edition of Topog. Hiber., 1887, p. 125; also J. F. Dimock’s edition of Giraldus’s works, 1867, V. pp. 135, 280.
[1044] Topog. Hiber. dist. II. c. 54. Camden’s edition, p. 734; Wright’s edition, p. 109.
[1045] Elton, Origins, p. 221 n. Some species of rhododendrons and azaleas are said to be productive of poisonous honey. (F. R. Cheshire, Bees and Bee-keeping, 1886, p. 291.) Laurel and ivy, though probably agreeable to bees, are similarly sources of bad honey. (A. Neighbour, The Apiary, 1878, pp. 297-8.)
[1046] R. Turner, Botanologia, 1664, pp. 362-3.