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[2] Archæologia, vol. iii. 1775.
[3] John Kitto, D. D., Cyclopædia of Biblical Art.
[4] John Beckman, A History of Inventions.
[5] Carmen XVIII. 26.
[6] Suetonius: “Soleis mularum argenteis.”
[7] Pliny: “Jumentis suis soleas ex auro induere.”
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[9] Knight’s Mechanical Dictionary.
[10] Alexander Adam, LL. D., Roman Antiquities.
[11] Archæologia, vol. xlvii.
[12] Scribner’s Magazine, November, 1894.
[13] John Beckman, A History of Inventions.
[14] Fosbroke, Archæologia, vol. iii.
[15] Notes and Queries, series 3, vol. v. 1864.
[16] Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and Queries, vol. i. 1889-91.
[17] Margaret G. Finch, The History of Oakham Castle. Oakham, 1897.
[18] Chambers’ Journal, March 10, 1866.
[19] Cameron’s Across Africa.
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[21] Clara Erskine Clement, Naples.
[22] George Borrow, The Zincali.
[23] A. Certeux and E. Henry Carnoy, L’Algérie traditionnelle, tome i. p. 159.
[24] Folk-Lore, June, 1896, p. 148.
[25] Lieutenant-Colonel N. Prejevalsky, Mongolia, vol. ii. p. 207.
[26] William M. Thomson, D. D., The Land and the Book.
[27] S. S. Thorburn, Bannú.
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[29] Clara Erskine Clement, Naples.
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[39] H. Clay Trumbull, The Threshold Covenant, p. 74.
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[41] Mélusine, tome viii. No. 3. 1896.
[42] L’Algérie traditionelle, tome i. p. 159. 1884.
[43] Richard Folkard, Jr., Plant-Lore.
[44] Rev. Timothy Harley, Moon-Lore, p. 192.
[45] Isaiah iii. 18.
[46] Cornhill, March, 1877.
[47] Thomas Inman, M. D., Ancient Faiths embodied in Ancient Names.
[48] Barclay V. Head, Historia Numorum. Oxford, 1887.
[49] A Dictionary of Roman Coins. London, 1889.
[50] Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. 84. 1814.
[51] Popular Science Monthly, November, 1895.
[52] Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 19. 1890.
[53] Bernard de Montfaucon, L’antiquité expliquée.
[54] Ph. Charles Berjean, The Horses of Antiquity, Middle Ages, and Renaissance. London, 1864.
[55] Theodore Andrea Cook, B. A., Old Touraine.
[56] Professor C. H. Rochholz, Alt-deutsches Bürgerleben.
[57] Richard Folkard, Jr., Plant-Lore.
[58] Laisnel de la Salle, Croyances et legendes du centre de la France. Paris, 1875.
[59] Merlin, Book of Charms.
[60] William A. Craigie, M. A., Scandinavian Folk-Lore, p. 396.
[61] Rudolph Keyser, The Religion of the Northmen, p. 299.
[62] Popular Science Monthly, vol. 44. 1894.
[63] Dr. Karl Sittl, Archäologie der Kunst, p. 210. 1895.
[64] Edward B. Tylor, LL. D., Primitive Culture.
[65] William S. Walsh, Handy Book of Literary Curiosities.
[66] Rev. Justus Doolittle, Social Life of the Chinese.
[67] Rennell Rodd, p. 165.
[68] William George Black, Folk-Medicine. London, 1883.
[69] J. B. Friedrich, Die Symbolik und Mythologie der Natur.
[70] F. Nork, Mythologie der Volkssagen und Volksmärchen. Stuttgart, 1848.
[71] Paul Sébillot, Légendes et curiosités des métiers.
[72] The Folk-Lore Journal, vol. vii. 1889.
[73] Jacob Larwood and John C. Hotten, The History of Signboards.
[74] William Mackay, Urquhart and Glenmoriston, p. 434.
[75] Daniel Wilson, The Archæology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland.
[76] Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, p. 352.
[77] F. S. Bassett, Sea Phantoms.
[78] James W. Mackinlay, Folk-Lore of Scottish Lochs and Springs, p. 6.
[79] William Jones, Credulities Past and Present.
[80] Giuseppe Pitré, Usi e costumi, credenze, e pregiudizi del popolo Siciliano. Palermo, 1889.
[81] A. Wuttke, Der deutsche Volksaberglaube, p. 92.
[82] Cornhill, N. S. vol. xix. 1892.
[83] Dr. H. Ploss, Das Kind in Brauch und Sitte der Völker, p. 122.
[84] A. Wuttke, Der deutsche Volksaberglaube, p. 336.
[85] Natural History, book xxviii. ch. 81.
[86] Dr. G. Lammert, Volksmedizin in Bayern, p. 120.
[87] Campbell.
[88] W. Crooke, B. A., Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India.
[89] Letter to the writer from H. Clay Trumbull.
[90] The Folk-Lore Journal, vol. vi. p. 77.
[91] Jones and Kropf, Folk-Tales of the Magyars, p. 410, note.
[92] Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, p. 148.
[93] Moise Schuhl, Superstitions et coutumes populaires du Judaisme.
[94] John Gregorson Campbell, The Fians, p. 52.
[95] Fräulein Helene Raff.
[96] L’Initiation, 19ᵉ volume, April, 1893.
[97] J. C. Brown, LL. D., People of Finland in Archaic Times, p. 112.
[98] W. A. Craigie, Scandinavian Folk-Lore.
[99] T. F. Thiselton Dyer, M. A., British Popular Customs, p. 424.
[100] Mélusine, tome iv. p. 367.
[101] R. G. Haliburton, The Dwarfs of Mount Atlas.
[102] Dr. Ludwig Beck, Die Geschichte des Eisens, p. 879.
[103] A. Wuttke, Der deutsche Volksaberglaube, p. 263.
[104] For this legend, and for other information regarding the traditions and customs of the Bavarian and Tyrolese peasantry, the writer is indebted to Fräulein Helene Raff, of Munich.
[105] Crooke, p. 199.
[106] Gregor, Scotch Folk-Lore, p. 45.
[107] E. Daumas, The Horses of the Sahara, pp. 150 et seq.
[108] Rev. James Macdonald, Religion and Myth, p. 92.
[109] Dr. O. Schrader, Prehistoric Antiquities.
[110] Richard Andree, Ethnographische Parallelen und Vergleiche, p. 155.
[111] Chambers’ Encyclopædia.
[112] Banier, Mythology, vol. ii. p. 570.
[113] Brinton, Religions of Primitive Peoples, p. 142.
[114] Henry Yule, Cathay and the Way Thither.
[115] Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. 281, p. 514. 1896.
[116] The Comical Pilgrim’s Pilgrimage into Ireland, 1723, p. 92.
[117] Dyer, British Popular Customs, p. 322.
[118] W. K. Kelly, Curiosities of Indo-European Tradition and Folk-Lore, p. 48.
[119] Campbell, p. 24.
[120] Campbell, p. 318.
[121] L. Maria Child, The Progress of Religious Ideas, vol. i. p. 276.
[122] Theophilus Hahn, Ph. D., Tsuni-Goam, p. 77.
[123] The Werner Company, Art Treasures from the World’s Fair. Chicago, 1895.
[124] All the Year Round, N. S. vol. xxxix. 1887.
[125] Indian Antiquary, vol. xv. 1886.
[126] Cornhill Magazine, vol. xix. 1869.
[127] E. G. Squier, A. M., The Serpent Symbol.
[128] Sir John Lubbock, The Origin of Civilization.
[129] Marc Monnier, Les contes populaires en Italie.
[130] Grosses Universal Lexicon.
[131] Astley, Collection of Voyages.
[132] Dr. Friedrich S. Krauss, Sréca, Glück und Schicksal im Volksglauben der Südslaven. Wien, 1886.
[133] A. W. Buckland, St. Paul’s Magazine, vol. i. 1874.
[134] Amer. Antiq., vol. xviii. p. 141. 1896.
[135] Lucy M. J. Garnett, The Christian Women of Turkey.
[136] Popular Science Monthly, vol. 35. 1889.
[137] Mélusine, tome viii. No. 2. 1896.
[138] The Myths of the New World, p. 132.
[139] John Newton, Notes and Queries, 7th series, vol. iii. April, 1887.
[140] W. Crooke, B. A., Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India.
[141] Jacob Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie.
[142] Friedrich Creuzer, Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker, vol. iv. p. 380.
[143] Das Kloster, vol. ix. p. 97.
[144] Friedrich, p. 454.
[145] L. Austine Waddell, M. B., The Buddhism of Tibet, p. 413.
[146] Campbell, p. 457.
[147] Schuyler, Turkistan, p. 30.
[148] Mélusine, tome viii. No. 1, p. 17. 1896.
[149] Max Jähns, Ross und Reiter, i. 371.
[150] Ulster Journal of Archæology, vol. vii. p. 69.
[151] Cornhill Magazine, article on “Comparative Folk-Lore,” vol. lxxvi.
[152] Thomas A. Wise, M. D., History of Paganism in Caledonia.
[153] Mallet, Northern Antiquities, p. 154.
[154] Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. 278, p. 417. 1895.
[155] Fräulein Helene Raff.
[156] Professor Dr. Sepp, Die Religion der alten Deutschen, p. 340. 1890.
[157] Jähns, i. pp. 294-296.
[158] Wuttke, p. 185.
[159] Wuttke, p. 423.
[160] Richard Andree, Braunschweiger Volkskunde, p. 128.
[161] Grimm, vol. i. p. 47.
[162] S. Baring-Gould, M. A., Strange Survivals.
[163] J. Scheible, Das Kloster, Band ix. p. 101; Thomas Carlyle, Early Kings of Norway, p. 8.
[164] Dr. Karl Weinhold, Altnordisches Leben, p. 145. 1856.
[165] Brand, vol. ii. p. 664.
[166] Fräulein Helene Raff.
[167] J. B. Friedrich, Die Symbolik und Mythologie der Natur.
[168] E. Rolland, Faune populaire de la France, tome iv.
[169] C. G. Leland, Gypsy Sorcery.
[170] Gerald Massey, A Book of Beginnings.
[171] Folk-Lore, vol. iv. p. 6. 1893.