877 Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Das festliche Jahr_, p. 82. 878 Philo vom Walde, _Schlesien in Sage und Brauch_, p. 122. 879 Grimm, _Deutsche Mythologie_,4 ii. 640 _sq._ 880 See above, p. 260. 881 K. Schwenk, _Die Mythologie der Slawen_, p. 217 _sq._ 882 Above, p. 263. 883 See above, pp. 83, 263. 884 Above, p. 263, and Grimm, _Deutsche Mythologie_,4 ii. 644; Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Fest-Kalender aus Böhmen_, p. 87 _sq._ 885 Above, p. 263. 886 See above, p. 266 _sqq._ 887 Above, pp. 257, 259, 265; and Grimm, _D. M._4 ii. 643. 888 Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Fest-Kalender aus Böhmen_, p. 88. Sometimes the effigy of Death (without a tree) is carried round by boys who collect gratuities. Grimm, _D. M._4 ii. 644. 889 Above, p. 243. 890 Wiedemann, _Aus dem inneren und äusseren Leben der Ehsten_, p. 353; Holzmayer, “Osiliana,” in _Verhandlungen der gelehrten Estnischen Gesellschaft zu Dorpat_, vii. Heft 2, p. 10 _sq._; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, p. 407 _sq._ 891 W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, pp. 417-421. 892 Ralston, _Songs of the Russian People_, p. 221. 893 Ralston, _op. cit._ p. 241. 894 Ralston, _op. cit._ p. 243 _sq._; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, p. 414. 895 W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, p. 414 _sq._; Ralston, _op. cit._ p. 244. 896 Ralston, _op. cit._ p. 245; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, p. 416. 897 W. Mannhardt, _l.c._; Ralston, _l.c._ 898 Grimm, _Deutsche Mythologie_,4 ii. 644. 899 J. G. von Hahn, _Albanesische Studien_, i. 160. 900 Captain R. C. Temple, in _Indian Antiquary_, xi. (1882) p. 297 _sq._ 901 See above, p. 94 _sqq._ 902 Above, p. 70 _sqq._ 903 Baudissin, _Studien zur semitischen Religionsgeschichte_, i. 299; W. Mannhardt, _Antike Wald- und Feldkulte_, p. 274. 904 Plutarch, _Alcibiades_, 18; Zenobius, _Centur._ i. 49; Theocritus, xv. 132 _sq._; Eustathius on Homer, _Od._ xi. 590. 905 Besides Lucian (cited below) see Jerome, _Comment. in Ezechiel._ viii. 14, _in qua (solemnitate) plangitur quasi mortuus, et postea reviviscens, canitur atque laudatur ... interfectionem et resurrectionem Adonidis planctu et gaudio prosequens_. 906 Theocritus, xv. 907 W. Mannhardt, _op. cit._ p. 277. 908 Lucian, _De dea Syria_, 6. The words ἐς τὸν ἠέρα πέμπουσι imply that the ascension was supposed to take place in the presence, if not before the eyes, of the worshipping crowds. 909 Lucian, _op. cit._ 8. The discoloration of the river and the sea was observed by Maundrell on 17/27th March 1696/1697. See his “Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem,” in Bohn’s _Early Travels in Palestine_, edited by Thomas Wright, p. 411. Renan observed the discoloration at the beginning of February; Baudissin, _Studien_, i. 298 (referring to Renan, _Mission de Phénicie_, p. 283). Milton’s lines will occur to most readers.