W. Hutchinson, _View of Northumberland_ (Newcastle, 1778), ii. Appendix, pp. 13 _sq._; Dyer, _British Popular Customs_, p. 257. Footnote 269: “Padstow ‘Hobby Hoss,’” _Folklore_, xvi. (1905) pp. 59 _sq._ Footnote 270: E. Meier, _Deutsche Sagen, Sitten und Gebräuche aus Schwaben_ (Stuttgart, 1852), p. 396. Footnote 271: E. Mogk, in R. Wuttke’s _Sächsische Volkskunde_ 2nd Ed., (Dresden, 1901), pp. 309 _sq._ Footnote 272: M. Rentsch, in R. Wuttke’s _op. cit._ p. 359. Footnote 273: A. De Nore, _Coutumes, mythes et traditions des provinces de France_ (Paris and Lyons, 1846), p. 137. Footnote 274: Bérenger-Féraud, _Superstitions et survivances_ (Paris, 1896), v. 308 _sq._ Compare _id._, _Reminiscences populaires de la Provence_, pp. 21 _sq._, 26, 27. Footnote 275: J. G. Scott and J. P. Hardiman, _Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States_, part i. vol. i. (Rangoon, 1900) p. 529. Footnote 276: W. Hone, _Every Day Book_, i. 547 _sqq._; R. Chambers, _Book of Days_, i. 571. Footnote 277: _Bavaria, Landes- und Volkskunde des Königreichs Bayern_, i. 372. Footnote 278: W. Hone, _Every Day Book_, ii. 597 _sq._ Mr. G. W. Prothero tells me that about the year 1875 he saw a permanent May-pole decked with flowers on May Day on the road between Cambridge and St. Neot’s, not far from the turning to Caxton. Footnote 279: See above, pp. 47 _sq._ Footnote 280: Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Fest-Kalendar aus Böhmen_, p. 217; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, p. 566. Footnote 281: A. Birlinger, _Volksthümliches aus Schwaben_ (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1861-1862), ii. 74 _sq._; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, p. 566. Footnote 282: Aristophanes, _Plutus_, 1054; W. Mannhardt, _Antike Wald- und Feldkulte_, pp. 222 _sq._ Footnote 283: Boecler-Kreutzwald, _Der Ehsten abergläubische Gebräuche, Weisen und Gewohnheiten_, pp. 112-114. Some traits in this story seem to suggest that the return of the trooper to his old home was, like that of the war-broken veteran in Campbell’s poem, only a soldier’s dream. Footnote 284: Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Fest-Kalendar aus Böhmen_, pp. 86 _sqq._; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, p. 156. Footnote 285: R. Chambers, _Book of Days_, i. 573. Compare the Cambridge custom, described above, p. 62. Footnote 286: W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, p. 312. Footnote 287: W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, p. 313. Footnote 288: _Ibid._ p. 314. Footnote 289: _Bavaria, Landes- und Volkskunde des Königreichs Bayern_, iii. 357; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, pp. 312 _sq._ The word _Walber_ probably comes from Walburgis, which is doubtless only another form of the better known Walpurgis. The second of May is called Walburgis Day, at least in this part of Bavaria. Footnote 290: W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, pp. 313 _sq._ Footnote 291: H. von Wlislocki, _Volksglaube und religiöser Brauch der Zigeuner_ (Münster i. W., 1891), pp. 148 _sq._ Footnote 292: