[464] Bazin, quoted by Breuil, in Memoires de la Societe d’ Antiquaires de Picardie, viii. (1845) p. 191 note.

[465] Correspondents quoted by A. Bertrand, La Religion des Gaulois (Paris, 1897), pp. 118, 406.

[466] Correspondent quoted by A. Bertrand, op. cit. p. 407.

[467] Felix Chapiseau, Le folk-lore de la Beauce et du Perche (Paris, 1902), i. 318-320.  In Perche the midsummer bonfires were called marolles.  As to the custom formerly observed at Bullou, near Chateaudun, see a correspondent quoted by A. Bertrand, La Religion des Gaulois (Paris, 1897), p. 117.

[468] Albert Meyrac, Traditions, Coutumes, Legendes, et Contes des Ardennes (Charleville, 1890), pp. 88 sq.

[469] L.F.  Sauve, Le Folk-lore des Hautes-Vosges (Paris, 1889), p. 186.

[470] Desire Monnier, Traditions populaires comparees (Paris, 1854), pp. 207 sqq.; E. Cortet, Essai sur les Fetes Religieuses, pp. 217 sq.

[471] Berenger-Feraud, Reminiscences populaires de la Provence (Paris, 1885), p. 142.

[472] Charles Beauquier, Les Mois en Franche-Comte (Paris, 1900), p. 89.  The names of the bonfires vary with the place; among them are failles, bourdifailles, bas or baux, feuleres or folieres, and chavannes.

[473] La Bresse Louhannaise, Juin, 1906, p. 207.

[474] Laisnel de la Salle, Croyances et Legendes du Centre de la France (Paris, 1875), i. 78 sqq. The writer adopts the absurd derivation of jonee from Janus.  Needless to say that our old friend Baal, Bel, or Belus figures prominently in this and many other accounts of the European fire-festivals.

[475] A. de Nore, Coutumes, Mythes et Traditions des Provinces de France (Paris and Lyons, 1846), p. 150.

[476] Correspondent, quoted by A. Bertrand, La Religion des Gaulois (Paris, 1897), p. 408.

[477] Guerry, “Sur les usages et traditions du Poitou,” Memoires et dissertations publies par la Societe Royale des Antiquaires de France, viii. (1829) pp. 451 sq.

[478] Breuil, in Memoires de la Societe des Antiquaires de Picardie, viii. (1845) p. 206; E. Cortet, Essai sur les Fetes Religieuses, p. 216; Laisnel de la Salle, Croyances et Legendes du Centre de la France, i. 83; J. Lecoeur, Esquisses du Bocage Normand, ii. 225.

[479] H. Gaidoz, “Le dieu gaulois du soleil et le symbolisme de la roue,” Revue Archeologique, iii.  Serie, iv. (1884) p. 26, note 3.

[480] L. Pineau, Le Folk-lore du Poitou (Paris, 1892), pp. 499 sq. In Perigord the ashes of the midsummer bonfire are searched for the hair of the Virgin (E.  Cortet, Essai sur les Fetes Religieuses, p. 219).

[481] A. de Nore, Coutumes Mythes et Traditions des Provinces de France, pp. 149 sq.; E. Cortet, op. cit. pp. 218 sq.