Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and PaganMiles, Clement A.
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Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
Miles, Clement A.
Christmas; Christmas -- History; Fasts and feasts
1. #E. Underhill, "Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of
Man's Spiritual Consciousness"# (London, 1911), 305. |371|
PART II.--PAGAN SURVIVALS
CHAPTER VI.--PRE-CHRISTIAN WINTER FESTIVALS
1. #Karl Pearson#, essay on #"Woman as Witch"# in #"The Chances of Death
and other Studies in Evolution"# (London, 1897), ii. 16.
2. Cf. #J. G. Frazer, "The Dying God"# (London, 1911), 269.
3. #J. A. MacCulloch, "The Religion of the Ancient Celts"# (Edinburgh,
1911), 278.
4. Frazer, "Dying God," 266.
5. #E. Anwyl, "Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times"# (London, 1906),
1 f.
6. _Ibid._ 20; cf. #E. K. Chambers, "The Mediaeval Stage"# (Oxford,
1903), i. 100 f. [Referred to as "M. S."]
7. #W. Robertson Smith, "Lectures on the Religion of the Semites"# (New
Edition, London, 1894), 16.
8. Chambers, "M. S.," i. 236; #W. W. Fowler, "The Roman Festivals of the
Period of the Republic"# (London, 1899), 272.
9. #"The Works of Lucian of Samosata"# (Eng. Trans. by H. W. and F. G.
Fowler, Oxford, 1905), iv. 108 f.
10. #John Brand, "Observations on Popular Antiquities"# (New Edition,
with the Additions of Sir Henry Ellis, London, Chatto & Windus,
1900), 283.
11. "Works of Lucian," iv. 114 f.
12. _Ibid._ iv. 109.
13. #J. G. Frazer, "The Golden Bough"# (2nd Edition, London, 1900), iii.
138 f., and #"The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kingship"# (London,
1911), ii. 310 f.
14. #W. W. Fowler, "The Religious Experience of the Roman People"#
(London, 1911), 107, 112.
15. Fowler, "Roman Festivals," 268, and "Religious Experience," 107; #C.
Bailey, "The Religion of Ancient Rome"# (London, 1907), 70.
16. Chambers, "M. S.," i. 237 f.; Fowler, "Roman Festivals," 278.
17. Quoted from #"Libanii Opera,"# ed. by Reiske, i. 256 f., by #G.
Bilfinger, "Das germanische Julfest"# (vol. ii. of "Untersuchungen
ueber die Zeitrechnung der alten Germanen," Stuttgart, 1901), 41 f.
18. "Libanii Opera," iv. 1053 f., quoted by Bilfinger, 43 f.
19. Chambers, "M. S.," i. 237 f., 258.
20. #A. Tille, "Yule and Christmas"# (London, 1899), 96. [Referred to as
"Y. & C."]
21. #J. C. Lawson, "Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion"#
(Cambridge, 1910), 221 f. Cf. #M. Hamilton, "Greek Saints and their
Festivals"# (London, 1910), 98.
22. Chambers, "M. S.," ii. 290 f.
23. Latin text in Chambers, "M. S.," ii. 297 f.
24. _Ibid._ i. 245.
25. Tille, "Y. & C.," 88 f.; Chambers, "M. S.," ii. 303 f. |372|
26. Tille, "Y. & C.," throughout; Chambers, "M. S.," i. 288 f.;
#Chantepie de la Saussaye, "The Religion of the Ancient Teutons"#
(Boston, 1902), 382. Cf. #O. Schrader#, in #Hastings's "Encyclopaedia
of Religion and Ethics"# (Edinburgh, 1909), ii. 47 f.
27. MacCulloch, "Religion of the Ancient Celts," 258 f. Cf. Chambers, "M.
S.," i. 228, 234.
28. Tille, "Y. & C.," 203.
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