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1. Evans, 221 f.; Mannhardt, "Baumkultus," 224 f. Cf. the account of the Servian Christmas in #Chedo Mijatovitch, "Servia and the Servians"# (London, 1908), 98 f.

2. Same sources. |379|

3. Mannhardt, "Baumkultus," 236.

4. Frazer, "Magic Art," ii. 208.

5. _Ibid._ ii. 232.

6. Evans, 219, 295, and 357.

7. _Ibid._ 222.

8. Mannhardt, "Baumkultus," 237.

9. Cf. Frazer, "Magic Art," ii. 233.

10. _Ibid._ ii. 365 f.

11. Mannhardt, "Baumkultus," 226 f.

12. #"Memoirs of Mistral"# (Eng. Trans. by C. E. Maud, London, 1907), 29 f.

13. Mannhardt, "Baumkultus," 226 f.

14. Sébillot, 218.

15. #A. de Gubernatis, "Storia Comparata degli Usi Natalizi"# (Milan, 1878), 112.

16. C. Casati in _Archivio trad. pop._, vol. vi. 168 f.

17. Jahn, 253.

18. _Ibid._ 254.

19. _Ibid._ 257.

20. Brand, 245; Dyer, 466.

21. #[Sir] G. L. Gomme, "Folk Lore Relics of Early Village Life"# (London 1883), 99.

22. Ashton, 111.

23. Burne and Jackson, 402.

24. _Ibid._ 398 f.

25. _Notes and Queries_, 1st Series, vol. iv. 309; Dyer, 446 f.

26. #"The Gentleman's Magazine,"# 1790, 719.

27. Hampson, i. 109.

28. Feilberg, i. 118 f.

29. _Ibid._ i. 146.

30. _Ibid._ ii. 66 f.