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Byways in British Archaeology

Note 260 — Chapter II · CHURCHES ON PAGAN SITES (continued)

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In addition to the works already cited, these are useful: Sir G. L. Gomme, Ethnology in Folk-Lore, 1880, ch. iv. and table on p. 105; also his Folk-Lore as an Historical Science, 1908, pp. 163-4, 323, 326; W. S. Walsh, Curiosities of Popular Customs, 1898, pp. 987-90; Folk-Lore, passim, especially Vols. III. and IV.; Sir J. Rhŷs, Celtic Folk-Lore, I. pp. 332-5, 354-400. May-day customs are treated at some length by J. G. Frazer, The Golden Bough, 1890, I. pp. 72-86. R. C. Hope, op. cit., gives extensive lists for the English counties. Some curious facts will be found in J. Aubrey’s Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, 1686-7, pp. iii, 34, 58 etc. Sir Norman Lockyer, Stonehenge, 1906, ch. xxi.; T. S. Knowlson, Origins of Pop. Superstitions and Customs, 1910, pp. 193-205.

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