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der Landrecht), ordains that if any man wilfully dig a hole into a dyke, it shall be filled with his body, i.e. he shall be buried in it alive.

Dr. W. ZUIDEMA.

Amsterdam.

The following note seems to bear on the custom of intramural burial. A writer in the Intermediaire^ speaks of having seen " a Bologne, dans I'eglise de Saint Dominique, le corps du bien- heureux Etienne de la Porretta enchasse dans un des piliers jusqu' a mi-corps. II est parfaitement conserve, mais la face est devenue couleur de momie."

With what object the blessed personage is kept half-enshrined in a pillar is not explained.

M. P.

The Little Red Hen. (Vol. X., p. 116.)

Does Mr. Redmond know that there is an Irish-American version of the " Little Red Hen," which he has published in the current number of Folk-Lore 1 In the fifth chapter of Faith Garfney's Girlhood (by the author of The Gayworthys), Bridget Foye, an applewoman, tells how a " crafty ould felly of a fox " secures " the little rid hin " in his bag, how she cuts her way out with the scissors she carries in her pocket, and puts a stone into the bag, &c., &c.

Mabel Peacock.

Days of the Week. (Vol. viii., p. 380 ; vol. ix., p. 258.)

In Styria, " am Donnerstag soil nicht gesponnen, am Freitag nicht gewaschen werden." K. Weinhold, Aus Steierinark, in Zeitschrift des Vereins fiir Volkskutide, vol. viii., p. 447.

' 20 fevrier, 1899, col. 237.