936 W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, p. 464; Leoprechting, _Aus dem Lechrain_, p. 183. 937 G. Pitrè, _Spettacoli e feste popolari siciliane_, p. 296 _sq._ 938 G. Pitrè, _op. cit._ p. 302 sq.; Antonio de Nino, _Usi Abruzzesi_, i. 55 _sq._; Gubernatis, _Usi Nuziali_, p. 39 _sq._ Cp. _Archivio per lo studio delle tradizioni popolari_, i. 135. At Smyrna a blossom of the _agnus castus_ is used on St. John’s Day for a similar purpose, but the mode in which the omens are drawn is somewhat different, _Archivio per lo studio delle tradizioni popolari_, vii. (1888) p. 128 _sq._ 939 Matthäus Praetorius, _Deliciae Prussicae_, herausgegeben von Dr. W. Pierson (Berlin, 1871), p. 56. 940 See p. 274 _sq._ 941 G. Pitrè, _Spettacoli e feste popolari siciliane_, p. 211. A similar custom is observed at Cosenza in Calabria. Vincenzo Dorsa, _La tradizione greco-latina_, etc., p. 50. For the Easter ceremonies in the Greek Church, see R. A. Arnold, _From the Levant_ (London, 1868), i. 251 _sqq._ 942 κήπους ὡσίουν ἐπιταφίους Ἀδώνιδι, Eustathius on Homer, _Od._ xi. 590. 943 Hippolytus, _Refut. omn. haeres._ v. 9, p. 168, ed. Duncker and Schneidewin; Socrates, _Hist. Eccles._ iii. 23, §§ 51 _sqq._ p. 204. 944 That Attis was killed by a boar was stated by Hermesianax, an elegiac poet of the fourth century B.C. (Pausanias, vii. 17); cp. Schol. on Nicander, _Alex._ 8. The other story is told by Arnobius (_Adversus nationes_, v. 5 _sqq._) on the authority of Timotheus, an otherwise unknown writer, who professed to derive it _ex reconditis antiquitatum libris et ex intimis mysteriis_. It is obviously identical with the account which Pausanias mentions (_l.c._) as the story current in Pessinus. 945 Pausanias, vii. 17; Julian, _Orat._ v. 177 B. 946 Ovid, _Metam._ x. 103 _sqq._ 947 On the festival see especially Marquardt, _Römische Staatsverwaltung_, iii.2 370 _sqq._; Daremberg et Saglio, _Dictionnaire des Antiquités grecques et romaines_, i. p. 1685 _sq._ (article “Cybèle”); W. Mannhardt, _Antike Wald- und Feldkulte_, p. 291 _sqq._; _id._, _Baumkultus_, p. 572 _sqq._ 948 Julian, _Orat._ v. 168 c; Joannes Lydus, _De mensibus_, iv. 41; Arnobius, _Advers. nationes_, v. cc. 7, 16 _sq._; Firmicus Maternus, _De errore profan. relig._ 27. 949 Julian, _l.c._ and 169 C. 950 Trebellius Pollio, _Claudius_, 4; Tertullian, _Apologet_. 25. For other references, see Marquardt, _l.c._