_Id._, in _Folk-lore_, viii. (1897) p. 308. Customs of the same sort are reported also from Combe, Headington, and Islip, all in Oxfordshire (Dyer, _British Popular Customs_, pp. 261 _sq._). See below, pp. 90 _sq._ Footnote 249: Dyer, _op. cit._ p. 243. Footnote 250: W. H. D. Rouse, in _Folk-lore_, iv. (1893) p. 53. I have witnessed the ceremony almost annually for many years. Many of the hoops have no doll, and ribbons or rags of coloured cloth are more conspicuous than flowers in their decoration. Footnote 251: J. P. Emslie, in _Folk-lore_, xi. (1900) p. 210. Footnote 252: _Memoirs of Anna Maria Wilhelmina Pickering_, edited by her son, Spencer Pickering (London, 1903), pp. 160 _sq._ Footnote 253: Lady Wilde, _Ancient Cures, Charms, and Usages of Ireland_ (London, 1890), pp. 101 _sq._ At the ancient Greek festival of the Daphnephoria or “Laurel-bearing” a staff of olive-wood, decked with laurels, purple ribbons, and many-coloured flowers, was carried in procession, and attached to it were two large globes representing the sun and moon, together with a number of smaller globes which stood for the stars. See Proclus, quoted by Photius, _Bibliotheca_, p. 321, ed. Bekker. Footnote 254: E. Cortet, _Essai sur les fêtes religieuses_ (Paris, 1867) pp. 167 _sqq._ Footnote 255: _Revue des traditions populaires_, ii. (1887) p. 200. Footnote 256: W. Müller, _Beiträge zur Volkskunde der Deutschen in Mähren_ (Wien und Olmütz, 1893), pp. 319 _sq._, 355-359. Footnote 257: _Folk-lore_, i. (1890) pp. 518 _sqq._ Footnote 258: W. R. S. Ralston, _Songs of the Russian People_ 2nd Ed., (London, 1872), pp. 234 _sq._ Footnote 259: A. Kuhn, _Märkische Sagen und Märchen_ (Berlin, 1843), p. 315. Footnote 260: W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, p. 162. Footnote 261: L. Lloyd, _Peasant Life in Sweden_, p. 235. Footnote 262: L. Lloyd, _op. cit._ pp. 257 _sqq._ Footnote 263: H. Pröhle, _Harzbilder_ (Leipsic, 1855), pp. 19 _sq._ Compare _id._, in _Zeitschrift für deutsche Mythologie und Sittenkunde_, i. (1853) pp. 81 _sq._; W. Mannhardt, _Germanische Mythen_, pp. 512 _sqq._; A. Kuhn und W. Schwartz, _Norddeutsche Sagen, Märchen und Gebräuche_ (Leipsic, 1848), p. 390, § 80. Footnote 264: Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Fest-Kalendar aus Böhmen_ (Prague, N.D.), pp. 308 _sq._ A fuller description of the ceremony will be given later. Footnote 265: For the evidence see J. Brand, _Popular Antiquities_, i. 234 _sqq._; W. Hone, _Every Day Book_, i. 547 _sqq._, ii. 574 _sqq._; R. Chambers, _Book of Days_, i. 574 _sqq._; T. F. Thiselton Dyer, _British Popular Customs_, pp. 228 _sqq._; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, pp. 168 _sqq._ Footnote 266: Phillip Stubbes, _The Anatomie of Abuses_, p. 149 (F. J. Furnivall’s reprint). In later editions some verbal changes were made. Footnote 267: W. Borlase, _Natural History of Cornwall_ (Oxford, 1758), p. 294. Footnote 268: