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.
- Grimm, Aberglaiiben., No. 887.
^ Globus, xl., 325.
- MS. note; Grohmann, No. 551 ; Meier, p. 217.
' Strackerjan, i., 45.
^ 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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