W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, pp. 163 _sqq._ To his authorities add for France, A. Meyrac, _Traditions, coutumes, légendes et contes des Ardennes_, pp. 84 _sqq._; L. F. Sauvé, _Folk-lore des Hautes-Vosges_, pp. 131 _sq._; Bérenger-Féraud, _Superstitions et survivances_, v. 309 _sq._; Ch. Beauquier, _Les Mois en Franche-Comté_ (Paris, 1900), pp. 69-72; F. Chapiseau, _Le Folk-lore de la Beauce et du Perche_ (Paris, 1902), ii. 109-111; for Silesia, F. Tetzner, “Die Tschechen und Mährer in Schlesien,” _Globus_, lxxviii. (1900) p. 340; P. Drechsler, _Sitte, Brauch und Volksglaube in Schlesien_, i. 112 _sq._; for Moravia, W. Müller, _Beiträge zur Volkskunde der Deutschen in Mähren_, p. 26; for Sardinia, R. Tennant, _Sardinia and its Resources_ (Rome and London, 1885), pp. 185 _sq._ In Brunswick the custom is observed at Whitsuntide (R. Andree, _Braunschweiger Volkskunde_, p. 248). Footnote 231: _Bavaria, Landes- und Volkskunde des Königreichs Bayern_, i. 373. Footnote 232: F. S. Krauss, _Volksglaube und religiöser Brauch der Südslaven_, p. 35. Footnote 233: W. Radloff, _Proben der Volkslitteratur der nördlichen Türkischen Stämme_, v. 2 (St. Petersburg, 1885). Footnote 234: E. T. Dalton, _Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal_, p. 194; a similar custom is practised among the Kurmis, _ibid._, p. 319. Among the Mundas the custom seems now to have fallen into disuse (H. H. Risley, _Tribes and Castes of Bengal: Ethnographic Glossary_, ii. 102). Footnote 235: