116 Panzer, _Beitrag zur deutschen Mythologie_, ii. pp. 221-224, Nos. 409, 410, 411, 412, 413, 414, 415, 418. _ 117 M. F._ p. 186 _sq._ 118 Above, p. 3. 119 Above, p. 26 _sq._ _ 120 M. F._ p. 187. _ 121 M. F._ p. 187 _sq._; Witzschel, _Sagen, Sitten und Gebräuche aus Thüringen_, pp. 189, 218; W. Kolbe, _Hessische Volks-Sitten und Gebräuche_ (Marburg, 1888), p. 35. _ 122 M. F._ p. 188; Ralston, _Songs of the Russian People_, p. 220. _ 123 A. W. F._ p. 197 _sq._; Panzer, _Beitrag zur deutschen Mythologie_, ii. p. 491; Jamieson, _Dictionary of the Scottish Language_, _s.v._ “Maiden”; Afzelius, _Volkssagen und Volkslieder aus Schwedens älterer und neuerer Zeit_, übersetzt von Ungewitter, i. 9. 124 Above, p. 6 _sq._ 125 L. Lloyd, _Peasant Life in Sweden_, pp. 169 _sq._, 182. On Christmas night children sleep on a bed of the Yule straw (_ib._ p. 177). 126 Jahn, _Deutsche Opfergebräuche_, p. 215. Cp. above, vol. i. p. 60. 127 Afzelius, _op. cit._ i. 31. 128 Afzelius, _op. cit._ i. 9; Lloyd, _Peasant Life in Sweden_, pp. 181, 185. 129 Above, pp. 8 _sq._, 11, 12, 15 _sq._, 21, 23, 28. In regard to the hare the substitution of brandy for hare’s blood is doubtless comparatively modern. _ 130 Die Korndämonen_, p. 1. 131 Herodotus, ii. 46. 132 Preller, _Griechische Mythologie_, 3 i. 600; _A. W. F._ p. 138. _ 133 A. W. F._ p. 139. 134 Pollux, iv. 118. _ 135 A. W. F._ p. 142 _sq._ 136 Ovid, _Fasti_, ii. 361; iii. 312; v. 101; _id._, _Heroides_, iv. 49. 137 Macrobius, _Sat._ i. 22, 3. 138 Homer, _Hymn to Aphrodite_, 262 _sqq._ 139 Pliny, _N. H._ xii. 3; Ovid, _Metam._ vi. 392; _id._, _Fasti_, iii. 303, 309; Gloss. Isid. Mart. Cap. ii. 167, cited by Mannhardt, _A. W. F._ p. 113. 140 Pliny, _N. H._ xii. 3; Martianus Capella, ii. 167; Augustine, _Civ. Dei_, xv. 23; Aurelius Victor, _Origo gentis Romanae_, iv. 6. 141 Servius on Virgil, _Ecl._ vi. 14; Ovid, _Metam._ vi. 392 _sq._; Martianus Capella, ii. 167. _ 142 B. K._ p. 138 _sq._; _A. W. F._ p. 145. 143 Servius on Virgil, _Georg._ i. 10. 144 Above, p. 12 _sqq._ _ 145 A. W. F._ ch. iii. 146 Above, vol. i. p. 379 _sq._ 147 Above, vol. i. p. 326 _sq._ 148 Above, vol. i. p. 325 _sq._ 149 Above, p. 19 _sqq._ 150 A. Lang, _Myth, Ritual, and Religion_, ii. 232.