[4] See Virgil, _Ecl._ viii.
[5] Napier’s _Scotch Folk-lore_, p. 95.
[6] _The Folk-lore of the Northern Counties and the Border_, by W.
Henderson, pp. 106, 114. Ed. 1879.
[7] Napier, p. 89.
[8] _Ibid._ p. 130.
[9] Henderson, _Border Folk-lore_, p. 35.
[10] Henderson, _Border Folk-lore_, p. 35.
[11] _Ibid._ p. 35.
[12] _Miscellanies_, p. 131. Ed. 1857.
[13] Brand’s _Pop. Antiqs._ i. p. 21.
[14] _Border Folk-lore_, pp. 114, 172, 207.
[15] Kelly’s _Indo-European Folk-lore_, p. 132.
[16] Brand, vol. i. p. 210.
[17] Kelly, p. 301.
[18] Brand, i. 292.
[19] Henderson, p. 116.
[20] Lowell has written a good sonnet on this belief. See his Poems.
[21] Cockayne’s _Saxon Leechdoms_, &c. (Rolls series), vol. ii. p. 343.
[22] _Anatomy of Melancholy_, Part III. section 2.
[23] This church was originally the temple of Pythian Apollo, and
stands much as it originally did.
[24] The peasants believe still that the Madonna opens gates, out of
which her son issues on his daily course round the world—an obvious
confusion between Christianity and the old Sun-worship.
[25] _George Eliot’s Life._ By J. W. Cross. Three volumes. Blackwood
and Sons. 1885.