, "Croyances et legendes
du centre de la France"# (Paris, 1875), i. 58.

47. Frazer, "Golden Bough," iii. 451 f.

48. #Washington Irving, "The Sketch-Book"# (Revised Edition, New York,
1860), 245.

49. _Notes and Queries_, 5th Series, vol. viii. 481.

50. Reinsberg-Dueringsfeld, 472.

51. Henderson, "Folk Lore of the Northern Counties," 100.

52. Burne and Jackson, 245.

53. Henderson, "Folk Lore of the Northern Counties," 226.

54. #E. K. Chambers and F. Sidgwick, "Early English Lyrics"# (London,
1907), 293; #E. Rickert, "Ancient English Carols"# (London, 1910),
262. |381|

55. Rickert, 262.

56. Burne and Jackson, 245 f., 397, 411.

57. Lloyd, 169.

58. Van Norman, 300.

59. Evans, 222.

60. Van Norman, 300 f.

61. Frazer, "Golden Bough," ii. 286 f.

62. Grimm, iv. 1831.

63. Chambers, "M. S.," i. 238. Cf. Tille, "Y. & C.," 104.

64. Reinsberg-Dueringsfeld, 420.

65. Tille, "D. W.," 195.

66. _Ibid._ 197.

67. Bilfinger, 48.

68. #Th. Bentzon, "Christmas in France"# in #"The Century Magazine"# (New
York), Dec., 1901, 173.

69. Feilberg, ii. 179 f.

70. Pitre, 167, 404.

71. Feilberg, i. 196; Reinsberg-Dueringsfeld, 453 f.; Wylie, 77 f.

72. Lloyd, 172.

73. #W. Sandys, "Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern"# (London, 1833),
xcv.

74. Walsh, 240 f.; Ashton, 194 f.

CHAPTER XII.--CHRISTMAS FEASTING AND SACRIFICIAL SURVIVALS

1. Chambers, "M. S.," i. 257.

2. Rickert, 259.

3. #W. Sandys, "Christmastide: its History, Festivities, and Carols"#
(London, n.d.), 112.

4. Chambers, "M. S.," i. 133.

5. #J. A. H. Murray, "A New English Dictionary"# (Oxford, 1888, &c.)
iv. (1) 577.

6. Addy, 103.

7. Dawson, 254.

8. Addy, 104.

9. Burne and Jackson, 407.

10. Brand, 283.

11. Cf. _Folk-Lore_, vol. xi., 1900, 260.

12. Addy, 103.

13. Cf. carols in Brand, 3, and Rickert, 243 f.

14. Brand, 3.

15. Dyer, 464.

16. Feilberg, i. 119, 184; Lloyd, 173.

17. Jahn, 265.

18. Stratilesco, 190.

19. Ralston, 193, 203.

20. Mijatovich, 98.

21. Jahn, 261.

22. Rietschel, 106. Cf. Weinhold, 25, and Reinsberg-Dueringsfeld, 463.

23. Sebillot, 217. |382|

24. Laisnel, i. 7 f.

25. _Ibid._ i. 12 f.

26. _Ibid._ i. 11.

27. #E. Cortet, "Essai sur les Fetes religieuses"# (Paris, 1867), 265.

28. Frazer, "Golden Bough," ii. 286 f.

29. #M. Hoefler, "Weihnachtsgebaecke. Eine vergleichende Studie der
germanischen