[354] H. Proehle, Harzbilder (Leipsic, 1855), p. 63; id., in Zeitschrift fuer deutsche Mythologie und Sittenkunde, i. (1853) p. 79; A. Kuhn und W. Schwartz, Norddeutsche Sagen, Maerchen und Gebraeuche (Leipsic, 1848), p. 373; W. Mannhardt, Der Baumkultus, p. 507.

[355] A. Kuhn, Maerkische Sagen und Maerchen (Berlin, 1843), pp. 312 sq.; W. Mannhardt, l.c.

[356] W. Mannhardt, Der Baumkultus p. 508.  Compare J.W.  Wolf, Beitraege zur deutschen Mythologie (Goettingen, 1852-1857), i. 74; J. Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie,*[4] i. 512.  The two latter writers only state that before the fires were kindled it was customary to hunt squirrels in the woods.

[357] A. Kuhn, l.c.; W. Mannhardt, Der Baumkultus, p. 508.

[358] Bavaria, Landes- und Volkskunde des Koenigreichs Bayern (Munich, 1860-1867), iii. 956.

[359] See above, pp. 116 sq., 119.

[360] F. Panzer, Beitrag zur deutschen Mythologie (Munich, 1848-1855), i. pp. 211 sq., Sec. 233; W. Mannhardt, Der Baumkultus, pp. 507 sq.

[361] Bavaria, Landes- und Volkskunde des Koenigreichs Bayern, iii. 357.

[362] F. Panzer, Beitrag zur deutschen Mythologie (Munich, 1848-1855), i. pp. 212 sq., Sec. 236.

[363] F. Panzer, op. cit. ii. pp. 78 sq., Sec.Sec. 114, 115.  The customs observed at these places and at Althenneberg are described together by W. Mannhardt, Der Baumkultus, p. 505.

[364] A. Birlinger, Volksthuemliches aus Schwaben (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1861-1862), ii. p. 82, Sec. 106; W. Mannhardt, Der Baumkultus, p. 508.

[365] Elard Hugo Meyer, Badisches Volksleben (Strasburg, 1900), pp. 97 sq.

[366] The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, ii. 349 sqq. See further below, vol. ii. pp. 298 sqq.

[367] J.W.  Wolf, Beitraege sur deutschen Mythologie, i. 75 sq.; W. Mannhardt, Der Baumkultus, p. 506.

[368] L. Lloyd, Peasant Life in Sweden (London, 1870), p. 228.

[369] W. Mueller, Beitraege sur Volkskunde der Deutschen in Mahren (Vienna and Olmuetz, 1893), pp. 321, 397 sq. In Wagstadt, a town of Austrian Silesia, a boy in a red waistcoat used to play the part of Judas on the Wednesday before Good Friday.  He was chased from before the church door by the other school children, who pursued him through the streets with shouts and the noise of rattles and clappers till they reached a certain suburb, where they always caught and beat him because he had betrayed the Redeemer.  See Anton Peter, Volksthuemliches aus oesterreichisch-Schlesien (Troppau, 1865-1867), ii. 282 sq.; Paul Drechsler, Sitte, Brauch und Volksglaube in Schlesien (Leipsic, 1903-1906), i. 77 sq.