Note 734 — MENSIS QUINCTILIS.
Reading edition
The bearing of these customs on the Nonae Caprotinae, and on the Greek story of Lityerses, was suggested by Mannhardt, Myth. Forsch. 32. Mr. Frazer gives a useful collection of examples, G. B. ii. 363 foll. The custom survives in Derbyshire (so I am told by Mr. S. B. Smith, Scholar of Lincoln College), but only in the form of making the stranger ‘pay his footing.’