810
Plutarch, Isis et Osiris, 18.
811
See above, p. 248 (#x_22_i19); and compare Adonis, Attis, Osiris, Second Edition, pp. 331 sqq.
812
See Adonis, Attis, Osiris, Second Edition, p. 323.
813
Plutarch, Isis et Osiris, 22, 30, 31, 33, 73.
814
Sir J. G. Wilkinson, Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians (ed. 1878), iii. 81.
815
Pausanias, i. 22. 3, viii. 5. 8, viii. 42. i.
816
Cornutus, Theologiae Graecae Compendium, 28. See above, p. 42 (#x_8_i13).
817
W. Hone, Every-day Book (London, n. d.), ii. coll. 1170 sq.
818
Miss C. S. Burne and Miss G. F. Jackson, Shropshire Folk-lore (London, 1883), pp. 372 sq., referring to Mrs. Bray's Traditions of Devon, i. 330.
819
W. Hone, op. cit. ii. 1172.
820
The Rev. Sydney Cooper, of 80 Gloucester Street, Cirencester, wrote to me (4th February 1893) that his wife remembers the “neck” being kept on the mantelpiece of the parlour in a Cornish farmhouse; it generally stayed there throughout the year.
821
“Old Harvest Customs in Devon and Cornwall,” Folk-lore, i. (1890) p. 280.
822
Ibid.
823
Frances Hoggan, M.D., “The Neck Feast,” Folk-lore, iv. (1893) p. 123. In Pembrokeshire the last sheaf of corn seems to have been commonly known as “the Hag” (wrach) rather than as “the Neck.” See above, pp. 142-144 (#x_14_i24).
824
J. Brand, Popular Antiquities, ii. 20 (Bohn's edition); Miss C. S. Burne and Miss G. F. Jackson, Shropshire Folk-lore, p. 371.
825
Burne and Jackson, l. c.
826
W. Mannhardt, Mythologische Forschungen, p. 185.
827
See above, p. 158 (#x_15_i32).
828
W. Mannhardt, Mythologische Forschungen, p. 185.
829
Ibid.
830
Revue des Traditions populaires, ii. (1887) p. 500.
831
Above, p. 150 (#x_15_i16).
832
E. Meier, in Zeitschrift für deutsche Mythologie und Sittenkunde, i. (1853) pp. 170-173; U. Jahn, Die deutschen Opfergebräuche bei Ackerbau und Viehzucht (Breslau, 1884), pp. 166-169; H. Pfannenschmid, Germanische Erntefeste (Hanover, 1878), pp. 104 sq.; A. Kuhn, Sagen, Gebräuche und Märchen aus Westfalen (Leipsic, 1859), ii. pp. 177 sq., §§ 491, 492; A. Kuhn und W. Schwartz, Norddeutsche Sagen, Märchen und Gebräuche (Leipsic, 1848), p. 395), § 97; K. Lynker, Deutsche Sagen und Sitten in hessischen Gauen (Cassel and Göttingen, 1860), p. 256, § 340.
833
W. Mannhardt, Die Korndämonen (Berlin, 1868), pp. 1-6.
834
W. Mannhardt, Roggenwolf und Roggenhund