Note 403 — Chapter IV
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Op. cit. iv. i. p. 242. We have seen (p. 163) that in the sixteenth century these customs and beliefs were common in Germany. It is also a German superstition that a house which contains a brand from the midsummer bonfire will not be struck by lightning (J.W. Wolf, Beiträge, zur deutschen Mythologie, i. p. 217, § 185).