[1217] J. Conington, in a note in Works of Virgil, ed. G. Long, 1884, II. p. 52 n.
[1218] Zool. Myth., I. p. 333.
[1219] At Burpham, Sussex, the paws of a fox were nailed on the door of the blacksmith’s shop “for luck” (1911).
[1220] Sir G. L. Gomme, Ethnology in Folk-Lore, 1892, pp. 35-6. (Many instances cited.) Mr Baring-Gould’s experience is related in Folk-Lore, IV. p. 6.
[1221] Notes and Queries, 1st Ser., V. p. 274.
[1222] Jour. Brit. Archaeol. Assoc., N.S. III. 1897, pp. 89-103, 192-206.
[1223] Notes and Queries, 8th Ser., VIII. p. 248.
[1224] Ibid. Additional instances are given in Folk-Lore, XII. 1901, pp. 348-9.
[1225] Notes and Queries, 4th Ser., III. p. 564.
[1226] Sir G. L. Gomme, Folk-Lore Relics in Early Village Life, 1883, pp. 34-7. (Other examples given.)