Chapter XVI. —Epiphany to Candlemas

1 . Hörmann, “Tiroler Volksleben,” 240 f.

2 . Leigh Hunt, “The Seer; or, Common-Places Refreshed” (London, 1850), part ii. 31.

3 . Beeching, 148 f.

4 . Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 261.

5 . E. Pasquier, “Les Recherches de la France” (Paris, 1621), livre iv., chap. ix. p. 375.

6 . Cortet, 33.

7 . Ibid. 34.

8 . Ibid. 43.

9 . E. Du Méril, “Origines latines du théâtre moderne” (Paris, 1849), 26 f.

10. Brand, 13.

11. A. de Nore, “Coutumes, mythes et traditions des provinces de France” (Paris, 1846), 173.

12. Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 29 f.; Brand, 13.

13. Matilde Serao, “La Madonna e i Santi” (Naples, 1902), 128.

14. Reinach, i. 45 f.

15. Abbott, 77.

16. Ibid. 78.

17. Frazer, “Golden Bough,” iii. 93.

18. Hörmann, “Tiroler Volksleben,” 246; Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 21.

19. Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 21.

20. Ibid. 21 f.

21. Stratilesco, 198.

22. Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 21.

23. Countess Martinengo-Cesaresco, “Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs” (London, 1886), 334.

24. D. N. Lees, “Tuscan Feasts and Tuscan Friends” (London, 1907), 87.

25. Ibid. 83.

26. Serao, 127 f.

27. E. de Olavarría y Huarte, “El Folk-Lore de Madrid,” 90. [Vol. ii. of “Biblioteca de las Tradiciones Populares Españolas” (Seville, 1884).]

28. Ibid. 92.

29. “Memoirs of Mistral,” 32 f.

30. Nore, 17.

31. Abbott, 87.

32. Frazer, “Magic Art,” i. 275 f.

33. Hamilton, 118.

34. Brand, 16; Chambers, “B. D.,” i. 56; Dyer, 21.

35. Aubrey, 40.

36. Brand, 16.

37. Beeching, 147.

38. Ashton, 87 f.

39. Hörmann, “Tiroler Volksleben,” 225.

40. Tille, “D. W.,” 254.

41. Hörmann, “Tiroler Volksleben,” 230.

42. W. S. Lach-Szyrma in “The Folk-Lore Record” (London), vol. iv., 1881, 53.

43. Brand, 17; Chambers, “B. D.,” i. 55 f.; Dyer, 22 f. Several accounts have been collected by Mrs. Leather, “Folk-Lore of Herefordshire,” 93 f.

44. Evans, 228.

45. Dyer, 24.

46. Folk-Lore, vol. v., 1894, 192.

47. Ibid. vol. vii., 1896, 340 f.

48. Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 149 f.

49. W. Hone, “Every Day Book” (London, 1838), ii. 1649.

50. Folk-Lore, vol. vii., 1896, 342.

51. [Sir] G. L. Gomme, “The Village Community” (London, 1890), 242 f.

52. Busk, 99.

53. Dawson, 320.

54. “The Nation” (London), Dec. 10, 1910.

55. Burne and Jackson, 411.

56. Lloyd, 217.

57. Bilfinger, 24.

58. Brand, 18 f.

59. Dyer, 37.

60. Quoted from “Journal of the Archæological Association,” vol. vii., 1852, 202, by Dyer, 39.

61. Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 113.

62. Ibid. i. 114.

63. Usener, 310 f.

64. Naogeorgus, 48.

65. Sébillot, 179 f.

66. Hörmann, “Tiroler Volksleben,” 7.

67. Usener, 321.

68. Brand, 25. Cf. G. W. Kitchin, “Seven Sages Of Durham” (London, 1911), 113.

69. The Gentleman's Magazine, 1790, 719.

70. Dyer, 55 f.

71. Quoted by Dyer, 57, from Martin's “Description of the Western Isles of Scotland” (1703), 119.

72. Gomme, “Folk-Lore Relics,” 95.

73. Brand, 26.

74. Ibid. 26.

75. Burne and Jackson, 411.

Conclusion

1 . E. Clodd in Presidential Address to the Folk-Lore Society, 1894. See Folk-Lore, vol. vi., 1895, 77.