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 Animal Superstitions and Totemisni. 241

Magpie : Anglesey,! W. Ireland, N.E. Scotland, Sweden, E. Prussia,t Tirol, Crossen (Mark), &c.^

Mouse, white : Schonhirde (Bohemia).^

Owl : Mecklenburg.^

Ox, black : Germany.*

Peewit : the Wotyaks.^

Pigeon : Moscow,t Bohemia, Swabia.^

Quail : MiinsterlandJ

Redstart : Bohemia.^

Raven : Swabia, Lechrain, Sweden, Llansaintffraid (?)^.

Sea-swallow : Camargue, W. Ireland.^*'

Snake : Tirol,t Silesia, Ruthenia, Bohemia, &c. ; in Liib- benau the counts of Lynar respect the snakes in their park ; they also have a snake as their crest. ^^

Spider : Sweden, Thuringia, Tirol, Silesia, Ruthenia, E. Prussia,t Niederlausitz,t Cornwall, Suffolk, &c.^-

Swift : Hampshire.^^

Toad : Sicily, Tirol, &c.i*

' MS. notes; F. L. R., iv., 107; F. L. /., ii., 25S : Gregor, p. 138; Gaslander, p. 42: Z. des V. fiir V., viii., 170; Kuhn, Nordd. S., p. 453; cf. F.,v. 283.

- Grohmann, No. 405.

^ Jahrb. des V. fiir Mechl. Gcs., ii., 123.

^ Globus, xl., 325.
 * Grimm, Aberglaiiben., No. 887.

' Strackerjan, i., 45.
 * MS. note; Grohmann, No. 551 ; Meier, p. 217.

^ Grohmann, No. 509.

^ Birlinger, i., 426; Leoprechting, p. 89 ; Gaslander, p. 48 ; Byegones, Sept., 1872.

'« Rolland, ii., 387 ; F. L.J., iv., 253.

" MS. notes; Peter, ii., 33; Kaindl, p. 103; Grohmann, No. 1659; many other authorities might be cited.

'■- Wuttke, p. 130 ; Kaindl, p. 105; Gaslander, p. 43; MS. notes; F. L. R., v., 89; Suffolk 7^, p. 7 ; Miss Marriage has given me the following Essex rhyme : —

" If you would live and thrive Let the spider go alive."

" AZ./.,i.. 304.

'* De Gubernatis, p. 629; Z. fur d. Myth., i., 7; Wuttke, p. 95 ; MS. notes.

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