319 Mariner's _Natives of the Tonga Islands_, ii. 127.

320 _Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon_. London, 1853, p. 552.

321 Tylor's _Primitive Culture_, ii. 272.

322 _Ibid._, ii. 272.

323 _Description of the Western Islands of Scotland_, by Martin Martin. London, 1716, p. 41.

324 _The Philosophie_, p. 696.

325 _A Voyage to St. Kilda, the remotest of all the Hybrides_, by M. Martin, Gent. Printed in the year 1698. Miscellanea Scottica.

Glasgow, 1818, p. 34.

326 _The Zend-Avesta_. Oxford, 1883, ii. 90.

327 _Five Hundred pointes of good Husbandrie_, by Thomas Tusser. London, 1580, p. 37.

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., Oxon. London, 1880, p. 42.

331 _Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders_, by William Henderson. London, 1866, p. 86.

332 _Knowledge for the Time_, by John Timbs, F.S.A. London, p.

227.

333 _Popular Errors, Explained and Ill.u.s.trated_, by John Timbs, F.S.A. London, 1857, p. 131.

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.

I.

337 _A defensative against the poyson of supposed Prophecies_, by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. London, 1583.

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 d.i.c.kens" 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, 1882, p. 325.

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 England_, by M.A.D. Novo-Castro-sup. Tynan, 1850-51, p. 11.

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_.

Edited by R. Chambers. London and Edinburgh, ii. 203.

353 _The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey_. Edited by his son. London, 1850, v. 341.

354 _Adam Bede_, chap. xviii.

355 _Scottish Ballads and Songs_. Edited by James Maidment.

Edinburgh, 1868, i. 41.

356 _Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language_. Paisley, 1880, iii. 299.

357 Dyer's _Folk-Lore_, p. 38.

358 _Notes and Queries_ for May 16th, 1874, p. 384.

359 _Ibid._ for August 1st, 1874, p. 84.

360 _Amazulu_, by Thomas B. Jenkinson, B.A., late Canon of Maritzburg. London, 1882, p. 61.

361 _Legends of Iceland_. Collected by Jon Arnason. Second series. London, 1866, p. 635.

362 _Astrology, as it is, not as it has been represented_, by a Cavalry Officer. London, 1856, p. 37.

363 _A Manual of Astrology_, by Raphael. London, 1828, p. 89.

364 _The Dignity and Advancement of Learning_. London (Bohn), 1853, p. 129.

365 _Works_. London, 1740, iii. 187.

366 Dyer's _Folk-Lore_, p. 41.