[267] Le Baron de Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Calendrier Belge_ (Brussels, 1861-1862), i. 141-143; E. Monseur, _Le Folklore Wallon_ (Brussels, N.D.), pp. 124 _sq._ [268] Émile Hublard, _Fêtes du Temps Jadis, les Feux du Carême_ (Mons, 1899), pp. 25. For the loan of this work I am indebted to Mrs. Wherry of St. Peter's Terrace, Cambridge. [269] É. Hublard, _op. cit._ pp. 27 _sq._ [270] A. Meyrac, _Traditions, coutumes, légendes et contes des Ardennes_ (Charleville, 1890), p. 68. [271] L.F. Sauvé, _Le Folk-lore des Hautes-Vosges_ (Paris, 1889), p. 56. The popular name for the bonfires in the Upper Vosges (_Hautes-Vosges_) is _chavandes_. [272] E. Cortet, _Essai sur les fêtes religieuses_ (Paris, 1867), pp. 101 _sq._ The local name for these bonfires is _bures_. [273] Charles Beauquier, _Les mois en Franche-Comté_ (Paris, 1900), pp. 33 _sq._ In Bresse the custom was similar. See _La Bresse Louhannaise, Bulletin Mensuel, Organe de la Société d'Agriculture et d'Horticulture de l'Arrondissement de Louhans_, Mars, 1906, pp. 111 _sq._; E. Cortet, _op. cit._ p. 100. The usual name for the bonfires is _chevannes_ or _schvannes_; but in some places they are called _foulères, foualères, failles_, or _bourdifailles_ (Ch. Beauquier, _op. cit._ p. 34). But the Sunday is called the Sunday of the _brandons, bures, bordes_, or _boidès_, according to the place. The _brandons_ are the torches which are carried about the streets and the fields; the bonfires, as we have seen, bear another name. A curious custom, observed on the same Sunday in Franche-Comté, requires that couples married within the year should distribute boiled peas to all the young folks of both sexes who demand them at the door. The lads and lasses go about from house to house, making the customary request; in some places they wear masks or are otherwise disguised. See Ch. Beauquier, _op. cit._ pp. 31-33. [274] Curiously enough, while the singular is _granno-mio_, the plural is _grannas-mias_. [275] Dr. Pommerol, "La fête des Brandons et le dieu Gaulois Grannus," _Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris_, v. Série, ii. (1901) pp. 427-429. [276] _Op. cit._ pp. 428 _sq._ [277] H. Dessau, _Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae_, vol. ii. Pars i. (Berlin, 1902) pp. 216 _sq._, Nos. 4646-4652. [278] (Sir) John Rhys, _Celtic Heathendom_ (London, 1888), pp. 22-25. [279] Émile Hublard, _Fêtes du Temps Jadis, les Feux du Carême_ (Mons, 1899), p. 38, quoting Dom Grenier, _Histoire de la Province de Picardie_. [280] É. Hublard, _op. cit._ p. 39, quoting Dom Grenier. [281] M. Desgranges, "Usages du Canton de Bonneval," _Mémoires de la Société Royale des Antiquaires de France_, i. (Paris, 1817) pp. 236-238; Felix Chapiseau, _Le folk-lore de la Beauce et du Perche_ (Paris, 1902), i. 315 _sq._ [282] John Brand, _Popular Antiquities of Great Britain_ (London, 1882-1883), i. 100.