W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, pp. 314 _sq._
A. Kuhn und W. Schwartz, _Norddeutsche Sagen, Märchen und Gebräuche_, p. 380.
F. Tetzner, “Die Tschechen und Mährer in Schlesien,” _Globus_, lxviii (1900) p. 340.
A. Kuhn und W. Schwartz, _op. cit._ pp. 383 _sq._; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, p. 342.
R. Andree, _Braunschweiger Volkskunde_ (Brunswick, 1896), pp. 249 _sq._
K. Seifart, _Sagen, Märchen, Schwänke und Gebräuche aus Stadt und Stift Hildesheim_, Zweite Auflage (Hildesheim, 1889), pp. 180 _sq._
Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Fest-Kalendar aus Böhmen_, pp. 260 _sq._; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, pp. 342 _sq._
F. A. Reimann, _Deutsche Volksfeste im neunzehnten Jahrhundert_, pp. 157-159; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, pp. 347 _sq._; A. Witzschel, _Sagen, Sitten und Gebräuche aus Thüringen_ (Vienna, 1878), p. 203.
Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Fest-Kalendar aus Böhmen_, pp. 253 _sqq._
Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Fest-Kalendar aus Böhmen_, p. 262; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, pp. 353 _sq._
Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Fest-Kalendar aus Böhmen_, p. 93; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, p. 344.
W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, pp. 343 _sq._
T. F. Thiselton Dyer, _British Popular Customs_, pp. 270 _sq._
W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, pp. 344 _sqq._; E. Cortet, _Fêtes religieuses_, pp. 160 _sqq._; D. Monnier, _Traditions populaires comparées_, pp. 282 _sqq._; Bérenger-Féraud, _Réminiscences populaires de la Provence_, pp. 17 _sq._; Ch. Beauquier, _Les Mois en Franche-Comté_ (Paris, 1900), pp. 65-69. In Franche-Comté she seems to be generally known as _l’épousée_, “the spouse.”
From information given me by Mabel Bailey, in the service of Miss A. Wyse of Halford. My informant’s father is a native of Stourton, and she herself has spent much of her life there. I conjecture that the conical flower-bedecked structure may once have been borne by a mummer concealed within it. Compare the customs described above, pp. 82 _sq._
From information given me by Miss A. Wyse of Halford.
Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Fest-Kalendar aus Böhmen_, pp. 265 _sq._; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, p. 422.
P. Drechsler, _Sitte, Brauch und Volksglaube in Schlesien_, i. (Leipsic, 1903) pp. 125-129.
D. Monnier, _Traditions populaires comparées_ (Paris, 1854), p. 304; E. Cortet, _Fêtes religieuses_, p. 161; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, p. 423.