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[507] L. Lalanne, Curiosités des traditions. Paris, 1847.

[508] E. P. Evans, Atlantic Monthly, vol. 54. 1884.

[509] W. Lander Lindsay, M. D., Mind in the Lower Animals.

[510] Banier’s Mythology.

[511] J. B. Thiers, Traité des superstitions.

[512] Louis Duval, Rôle des croyances populaires dans la protection des animaux. 1889.

[513] The Student and Intellectual Observer, vol. iii. 1869.

[514] Rev. G. Oliver, D. D., The Pythagorean Triangle.

[515] Pliny, Natural History, book xxviii.

[516] Century Dictionary.

[517] Sir John Bowring, F. R. S., The Kingdom and People of Siam, vol. i. p. 139.

[518] Mallet’s Northern Antiquities, p. 112.

[519] Folkard, p. 377.

[520] Robert Vilvain, of Excester, Enchiridium Epigrammatum, p. 148. 1654.

[521] T. Wain, The Wonderful Number Seven.

[522] Charles De B. Mills, The Tree of Mythology.

[523] The International Cyclopædia, vol. xiii. p. 360.

[524] Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible, art. “Seven.”

[525] F. Lenormant, Chaldean Magic and Sorcery.

[526] Enchiridium Epigrammatum, p. 141. 1654.

[527] T. Wain, The Wonderful Number Seven.

[528] S. Pancoast, M. D., The Kabbala, p. 247.

[529] The National Review, vol. xxi. p. 199. 1893.

[530] D. Person, Varieties.

[531] All the Year Round, vol. iii. 1870.

[532] Cockayne, vol. ii. p. 335.

[533] Crooke, p. 199.

[534] Campbell, Spirit Basis of Custom and Belief, p. 208.

[535] Times’ Whistle.

[536] Fräulein Helene Raff.

[537] Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft, edited by the Rev. Oswald Cockayne.

[538] Archæologia, vol. xxx. p. 427. 1844.

[539] Celtic Magazine, vol. viii. p. 252.

[540] William G. Black, Folk-Medicine.

[541] Social Life in Scotland, vol. iii. p. 227.

[542] C. G. Leland, Gypsy Sorcery.

[543] Das Kloster, Band xii. p. 771; Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, vol. i. p. 227; Grimm’s Teutonic Mythology, vol. i. pp. 272 et seq.

[544] Gerald Massey, Luniolatry, p. 17.

[545] J. B. Salgues, Des erreurs et des préjuges.

[546] Zeitschrift des Vereins für Volkskunde, vol. iv. p. 250. 1894.

[547] Boston Transcript, December 30, 1897.

[548] Surgeon-General Edward Balfour, The Encyclopædia of India.

[549] Journal of American Folk-Lore, No. 17. April, 1892.

[550] Brewers’ Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.

[551] The Century Dictionary.