K. Seifart, _Sagen, Märchen, Schwänke und Gebräuche aus Stadt und Stift Hildesheim_, Zweite Auflage (Hildesheim, 1889), pp. 180 _sq._ Footnote 315: Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Fest-Kalendar aus Böhmen_, pp. 260 _sq._; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, pp. 342 _sq._ Footnote 316: F. A. Reimann, _Deutsche Volksfeste im neunzehnten Jahrhundert_, pp. 157-159; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, pp. 347 _sq._; A. Witzschel, _Sagen, Sitten und Gebräuche aus Thüringen_ (Vienna, 1878), p. 203. Footnote 317: Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Fest-Kalendar aus Böhmen_, pp. 253 _sqq._ Footnote 318: Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Fest-Kalendar aus Böhmen_, p. 262; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, pp. 353 _sq._ Footnote 319: _Baumkultus_, p. 355. Footnote 320: Above, vol. i. pp. 292, 293. Footnote 321: Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Fest-Kalendar aus Böhmen_, p. 93; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, p. 344. Footnote 322: W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, pp. 343 _sq._ Footnote 323: T. F. Thiselton Dyer, _British Popular Customs_, pp. 270 _sq._ Footnote 324: W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, pp. 344 _sqq._; E. Cortet, _Fêtes religieuses_, pp. 160 _sqq._; D. Monnier, _Traditions populaires comparées_, pp. 282 _sqq._; Bérenger-Féraud, _Réminiscences populaires de la Provence_, pp. 17 _sq._; Ch. Beauquier, _Les Mois en Franche-Comté_ (Paris, 1900), pp. 65-69. In Franche-Comté she seems to be generally known as _l’épousée_, “the spouse.” Footnote 325: From information given me by Mabel Bailey, in the service of Miss A. Wyse of Halford. My informant’s father is a native of Stourton, and she herself has spent much of her life there. I conjecture that the conical flower-bedecked structure may once have been borne by a mummer concealed within it. Compare the customs described above, pp. 82 _sq._ Footnote 326: Above, pp. 24 _sqq._ Footnote 327: From information given me by Miss A. Wyse of Halford. Footnote 328: Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Fest-Kalendar aus Böhmen_, pp. 265 _sq._; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, p. 422. Footnote 329: P. Drechsler, _Sitte, Brauch und Volksglaube in Schlesien_, i. (Leipsic, 1903) pp. 125-129. Footnote 330: D. Monnier, _Traditions populaires comparées_ (Paris, 1854), p. 304; E. Cortet, _Fêtes religieuses_, p. 161; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, p. 423. Footnote 331: J. Brand, _Popular Antiquities_, i. 233 _sq._; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, p. 424. We have seen (p. 62) that a custom of the same sort used to be observed at Bampton-in-the-Bush in Oxfordshire. Footnote 332: E. Hoffmann-Krayer, “Fruchtbarkeitsriten im schweizerischen Volksbrauch,” _Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde_, xi. (1907) pp. 257 _sq._ Footnote 333: E. Sommer, _Sagen, Märchen und Gebräuche aus Sachsen und Thüringen_ (Halle, 1843), pp. 151 _sq._; W. Mannhardt, Baumkultus, pp. 431 _sq._ The custom is now obsolete (E. Mogk, in R. Wuttke’s _Sächsische Volkskunde_, 2nd Ed., Dresden, 1901, p. 309). Footnote 334: