[30] Cf. _Perlesvaus_, Branch II. Chap. I. [31] Throwing into, or drenching with, water is a well known part of the ‘Fertility’ ritual; it is a case of sympathetic magic, acting as a rain charm. CHAPTER V [1] _Ancient Greek Religion, and Modern Greek Folk-Lore_, J. C. Lawson, gives some most interesting evidence as to modern survivals of mythological beliefs. [2] _Wald und Feld-Kulte_, 2nd edition, 2 vols., Berlin, 1904. Cf. Vol. II. p. 286. _The Golden Bough_, 3rd edition, 5 vols. [3] I cite from Mannhardt, as the two works overlap in the particular line of research we are following: the same instances are given in both, buyt the honour of priority belongs to the German scholar. [4] _Op. cit_. Vol. I. p. 411. [5] See G. Calderon, ‘Slavonic Elements in Greek religion,’ _Classical Review_, 1918, p. 79. [6] _Op. cit_. p. 416. [7] _Op. cit_. pp. 155 and 312. [8] _Op. cit_. p. 353. [9] _Op. cit_. p. 358. [10] _Op. cit_. p. 358. [11] _Op. cit_. p. 359. Cf. the Lausitz custom given _supra_, which Mannhardt seems to have overlooked. [12] In the poem, besides the ordinary figures of the Vegetation Deity, his female counterpart, and the Doctor, common to all such processions, Laubfrosch, combining the two first, and Horse. Cf. Mannhardt, _Mythol. Forsch_. pp. 142-43; _Mysterium und Mimus_, pp. 408 _et seq_.; also, pp. 443-44. Sir W. Ridgeway (_op. cit_. p. 156) refers slightingly to this interpretation of a ‘harmless little hymn’—doubless the poem is harmless; until Prof. von Schroeder pointed out its close affinity with the Fertility processions it was also meaningless. [13] _Op. cit_. Chap. 17, p. 253. [14] Cf. _Folk-Lore_, Vol. XV. p. 374. [15] _Op. cit_. Vol. V. _The Dying God_, pp. 17 _et seq_. [16] See Dr Seligmann’s study, _The Cult of Nyakang and the Divine Kings of the Shilluk_ in the Fourth Report of the Wellcome Research Laboratories, Kkartum, 1911, Vol. B. [17] Cf. Address on reception into the Academy when M. Paris succeeded to Pasteur’s _fauteuil_. CHAPTER VI [1] _Op. cit_. Vol. I. p. 94. [2] _The Legend of Longinus_, R. J. Peebles (Bryn Mawr College monographs, Vol. IX.). [3] I discussed this point with Miss Lucy Broadwood, Secretary of the Folk-Song Society, who has made sketches of these Crosses, and she entirely agrees with me. In my _Quest of the Holy Grail_, pp. 54 _et seq_., I have pointed out the absolute dearth of ecclesiastical tradition with regard to the story of Joseph and the Grail. [4] Cf. _Littaturzeitung_, XXIV. (1903), p. 2821. [5] Cf. _The Bleeding Lance_, A. C. L. Brown. [6] Cf. Brown, _op. cit_. p. 35; also A. Nutt, _Studies in the Legend of the Holy Grail_, p. 184. [7] Cf. Brown, _Notes on Celtic Cauldrons of Plenty_, p. 237. [8] Cf. _Queste_, Malory, Book XIII. Chap. 7, where the effect is the same. [9] Cf. _Germanische Elben und Götter beim Estenvolker_, L. von Schroeder (Wien, 1906).