279
J. V. Grohmann, Aberglauben und Gebräuche aus Böhmen und Mähren (Prague and Leipsic, 1864), p. 37, § 218. In Upper Bavaria the mistletoe is burned for this purpose along with the so-called palm-branches which were consecrated on Palm Sunday. See Bavaria, Landes- und Volkskunde des Königreichs Bayern, i. (Munich, 1860), p. 371.
280
A. Kuhn, Die Herabkunft des Feuers und des Göttertranks,
p. 206, referring to Albertus Magnus, p. 155; Prof. P. J. Veth, “De Leer der Signatuur,” Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie, vii. (1904) p. 111.
281
J. N. Ritter von Alpenburg, Mythen und Sagen Tirols (Zurich, 1857), p. 398.
282
A. Wuttke, Der deutsche Volksaberglaube
(Berlin, 1869), p. 97, § 128; Prof. P. J. Veth, “De Leer der Signatuur,” Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie, vii. (1894) p. 111.
283
A. Wuttke, op. cit. p. 267, § 419.
284
W. Henderson, Notes on the Folk-lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders (London, 1879), p. 114.
285
Marie Trevelyan, Folk-lore and Folk-stories of Wales (London, 1909), p. 88.
286
L. Lloyd, Peasant Life in Sweden (London, 1870), p. 269.
287
Above, pp. 77 (#x_6_i5), 78 (#x_6_i5).
288
Above, pp. 82 (#x_6_i17), 84 (#x_6_i19).
289
Above, pp. 83 (#x_6_i19), 86 (#x_6_i25).
290
J. Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie,
iii. 353, referring to Dybeck, Runa, 1844, p. 22.
291
Marie Trevelyan, Folk-lore and Folk-stories of Wales (London, 1909), p. 88.
292
See above, p. 86 (#x_6_i25).
293
G. Wahlenberg, Flora Suecica (Upsala, 1824-1826), ii. No. 1143 Viscum album, pp. 649 sq.: “Hab. in sylvarum densiorum et humidiorum arboribus frondosis, ut Pyris, Quercu, Fago etc. per Sueciam temperatiorem passim.”
294
Above, vol. i. pp. 171 sq.
295
L. Lloyd, Peasant Life in Sweden (London, 1870), p. 259.
296
J. Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie,
iii. 78, who adds, “Mahnen die Johannisfeuer an Baldrs Leichenbrand?” This pregnant hint perhaps contains in germ the solution of the whole myth.
297
Above, vol. i. p. 148.
298
Above, vol. i. p. 186.
299
Above, p. 26 (#x_4_i16).
300
As to the worship of the oak in Europe, see The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, ii. 349 sqq. Compare P. Wagler, Die Eiche in alter und neuer Zeit, in two parts (Wurzen, n. d., and Berlin, 1891).
301
Strabo, xii. 5.1, p. 567. The name is a compound of dryu, “oak,” and nemed, “temple” (H. F. Tozer, Selections from Strabo, Oxford, 1893, p. 284). We know from Jerome (Commentar. in Epist. ad Galat. book ii. praef.) that the Galatians retained their native Celtic speech as late as the fourth century of our era.