CHAPTER IV.

NORTH TIROL--UNTERINNTHAL--(RIGHT INN-BANK).

ZILLERTHAL CUSTOMS--THE WILDSCHÖNAU.

Zillerthal customs--Games--Spirits play with gold skittles--Pedlar of Starkenberg--Dances: Schnodahüpfl: Hosennagler--Cow-fights-- Kirchtag--Primizen and Sekundizen--Carneval--Christnacht-- Kloubabrod--Sternsingen--Gömacht--Weddings--Zutrinken--Customs of other valleys--The cat, patron of courtship 92

Kundl again--Wiltschenau--Niederaich--Kundlburg--Oberau--Niederrau --Thierberg--Silver-mines--Legends of dwarfs and Knappen--Moidl and the gold-cave--Legend of the Landmark--Der Umgehende Schuster-- Perchtl, Pilate's wife--Comparative mythologists--Wodin, Wilder Jäger, Wilhelm Tell--Symbolism in tales of enchanted Princesses-- Perahta, the daughter of Dagha--Brixlegg--Burgleckner--Claudia de' Medici--Biener's dying challenge--The Bienerweible--Sandbichler, the Bible-commentator 110