Note 427 — IX. COMPARATIVE FOLK-LORE.

Those who doubt the existence of much popular superstition in this century may judge of the amount and value of the evidence by referring to the following books: 1. All the volumes of Notes and Queries, Index, Folk-Lore. 2. Harland and Wilkinson, Lancashire Folk-Lore, 1867. 3. Henderson’s Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders, 1866. 4. Kelly’s Curiosities of Indo-European Tradition and Folk-Lore, 1863. 5. Stewart’s Popular Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland, 1851. 6. Sternberg’s Dialect and Folk-Lore of Northamptonshire, 1851. 7. Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, 1851. 8. Birlinger, Volksthümliches aus Schwaben, 1861. 9. Koehler, Volksbrauch im Voigtlande, 1867. 10. Bosquet, La Normandie Romanesque, 1845.