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322 _Ibid._, ii. 272.

323 _Description of the Western Islands of Scotland_, by Martin
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324 _The Philosophie_, p. 696.

325 _A Voyage to St. Kilda, the remotest of all the Hybrides_, by
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326 _The Zend-Avesta_. Oxford, 1883, ii. 90.

327 _Five Hundred pointes of good Husbandrie_, by Thomas
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328 Flammarion's _Marvels of the Heavens_, p. 244.

329 _The Philosophie_, 1603, p. 697.

330 _English Folk-Lore_, by the Rev. T. F. Thiselton Dyer, M.A.,
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331 _Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England
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332 _Knowledge for the Time_, by John Timbs, F.S.A. London, p.
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333 _Popular Errors, Explained and Illustrated_, by John Timbs,
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334 _A Manual of Astrology_, by Raphael. London, 1828, p. 90.

335 Brinton's _Myths_, p. 132.

336 _Endimion: The Man in the Moone_. London, 159 1, Act i. Sc.
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337 _A defensative against the poyson of supposed Prophecies_, by
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338 _Folk-Lore of China_, p. 118.

339 Tusser's _Good Husbandrie_, p. 13.

340 _Ibid._, p. 13.

341 _Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England_, p. 41

342 _David Copperfield_. The "Charles Dickens" edition, p. 270.

343 See _An Historical Survey of the Astronomy of the Ancients_,
by the Rt. Hon. Sir George C. Lewis, Bart. London, 1862, p. 312.

344 _Popular Astronomy_, by Simon Newcomb, LL.D. New York,
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345 _Primitive Culture_, i. 118.

346 Dennys's _Folk-Lore of China_, p. 32.

347 _Folk-Lore; or, Manners and Customs of the North of
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348 Dyer's _Folk-Lore_, p. 42.

349 _Ibid._, p. 41.

350 _Time's Telescope_ for 1814. London, p. 368.

351 Dennys's _Folk-Lore of China_, p. 118.

352 _The Book of Days: a Miscellany of Popular Antiquities_.
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353 _The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey_. Edited by
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354 _Adam Bede_, chap. xviii.

355 _Scottish Ballads and Songs_. Edited by James Maidment.
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356 _Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language_. Paisley,