[500] Dr. Lyttelton, Bishop of Carlisle, quoted by William Borlase, Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall (London, 1769), p. 135 note.

[501] County Folk-lore, vol. iv. Northumberland, collected by M.C.  Balfour (London, 1904), p. 76, quoting E. Mackenzie, An Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive View of the County of Northumberland, Second Edition (Newcastle, 1825), i. 217.

[502] County Folk-lore, vol. iv. Northumberland, collected by M.C.  Balfour, p. 75.

[503] County Folk-lore, vol. iv. Northumberland, collected by M.C.  Balfour, p. 75.

[504] The Denham Tracts, edited by J. Hardy (London, 1892-1895), ii. 342 sq., quoting Archaelogia Aeliana, N.S., vii. 73, and the Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club, vi. 242 sq.; County Folk-lore, vol. iv. Northumberland, collected by M.C.  Balfour (London, 1904), pp. 75 sq. Whalton is a village of Northumberland, not far from Morpeth.

[505] County Folk-lore, vol. vi. East Riding of Yorkshire, collected and edited by Mrs. Gutch (London, 1912), p. 102.

[506] John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme (London, 1881), p. 96, compare id., p. 26.

[507] J. Brand, Popular Antiquities of Great Britain (London, 1882-1883), i. 311.

[508] William Borlase, LL.D., Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall (London, 1769), pp. 135 sq. The Eve of St. Peter is June 28th.  Bonfires have been lit elsewhere on the Eve or the day of St. Peter.  See above, pp. 194 sq. 196 sq., and below, pp. 199 sq., 202, 207.

[509] J. Brand, op. cit. i. 318, 319; T.F.  Thiselton Dyer, British Popular Customs (London, 1876), p. 315.

[510] William Bottrell, Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall (Penzance, 1870), pp. 8 sq., 55 sq.; James Napier, Folk-lore, or Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland (Paisley, 1879), p. 173.

[511] Richard Edmonds, The Land’s End District (London, 1862), pp. 66 sq.; Robert Hunt, Popular Romances of the West of England, Third Edition (London, 1881), pp. 207 sq.

[512] Marie Trevelyan, Folk-lore and Folk-stories of Wales (London, 1909), pp. 27 sq. Compare Jonathan Ceredig Davies, Folk-lore of West and Mid-Wales (Aberystwyth, 1911), p. 76.

[513] J. Brand, Popular Antiquities of Great Britain (London, 1882-1883), i. 318.

[514] Joseph Train, Account of the Isle of Man (Douglas, Isle of Man, 1845), ii. 120.

[515] Sir Henry Piers, Description of the County of Westmeath, written in 1682, published by (General) Charles Vallancey, Collectanea de Rebus Hibernieis, i. (Dublin, 1786) pp. 123 sq.