List of Foreign Collections
The following foreign collections are referred to by initials in the text:—
| A. | Archivio Storrco per lo Studio delle tradizione popolari. Articles by Canizzaro, I, 1882; by Wesselowski, II, 1883, etc. |
| Br. | Birlinger: Nimm mich mit, 1871. |
| Bo. | Boehme, F. M.: Geschichte des Tanzes, 1884. |
| B. | Bujeaud, I.: Chants et chansons des provinces de l’Ouest, 1895. |
| C. P. | Corpus Poet. Borealium, ed. Vigfusson and Powell, 1883. |
| D. | Dumersan, M.: Chansons et rondes enfantines, 1856. |
| Du. | Dunger, H.: Kinderlieder aus dem Vogtland, 1874. |
| D. B. | Durieux et Bruyelles: Chants et chansons du Cambrésis, 1864. |
| E. | Erk, L.: Deutscher Liederhort, 1856. |
| F. | Frischbier, H.: Preussische Volksreime und Spiele, 1867. |
| G. | Gagnon, E.: Chansons pop. du Canada, 1865. |
| Gr. | Grimm, J.: Deutsche Mythologie, reprint 1875. |
| Gt. | Grundtvig: Gamle Danske Minder, 1854-6. |
| H. | Handelmann: Volks—und Kinderspiele aus Schleswig Holstein, 1862. |
| H. V. | Hersart de la Villemarqué: Barzas Breis, 1867. |
| L. | Luzel, F. M.: Chansons de la Basse Bretagne, 1890. |
| M. | Mannhardt: Germanische Mythen, 1858. |
| Ma. | Marin, Rodriguez: Rimas Infantiles, 1882. |
| Me. | Meier, Ernst: Kinderreime und Kinderspiele aus Schwaben, 1851. |
| Mi. | Mila y Fontanals: Romancerillo Catalan, 1882. |
| Mo. | Morlidas: Grande Encyclopedie des Jeux. |
| M. L. | Montel et Lambert: Chants populaires du Languedoc, 1880. |
| N. | Newell, W. W.: Songs of American Children, 1884. |
| N. & Q. | Notes and Queries. |
| R. | Rochholz: Alemannisches Kinderlied und Spiel, 1859. |
| Ro. | Rolland: Faune populaire, 1876-83. |
| S. | Schleicher: Volksthümliches aus Sonneberg, 1858. |
| Sch. | Schuster, F. W.: Siebenbürg-sächs. Volkslieder, 1856. |
| Sim. | Simrock: Das deutsche Kinderbuch. |
| St. | Stöber: Elsässisches Volksbüchlein, 1842. |
| V. | Vemaleken: Spiele und Reime aus Oesterreich, 1873. |
| W. | Wossidlo: Volksthümliches aus Mecklenburg, 1885. |
Footnotes
1 Letters of Joseph Ritson, edited by his Nephew, 1833. 27 April, 1781.
2 Welsh, Ch., A Publisher of the Last Century, 1885, p. 272.
3 Appleton, Cyclopædia of American Biography, 1887: Fleet, Thomas.
4 Whitmore, W. H., The original Mother Goose’s Melody, 1892, p. 40 ff.
5 Lang, A., Perrault’s Popular Tales, 1888. Introduction, XXIV.
6 Collier, J. P., Punch and Judy, citing “A Second Tale of a Tub or the History of Robert Powell, the puppet-showman, 1715.”
7 Dictionary of National Biography, Grimaldi.
8 Whitmore, loc. cit., p. 6.
9 Eachard, Observations, etc., 1671, cited. Halliwell, Popular Rhymes, 1849, p. 137.
10 Chappell, Popular Music of the Olden Time, 1893, p. 633.
11 Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, 1866, p. 189.
12 Cited Murray’s Dictionary: Jack.
13 Forster, J., Life of Goldsmith, II, p. 71.
14 Chappell, loc. cit., p. 770.
15 Roxburgh Collection of Ballads, IV, p. 355.
16 Forster, Life of Goldsmith, II, 122.
17 Chappell, loc. cit., p. 569.
18 Chappell, loc. cit., p. 315.
19 Warton, History of English Poetry, 1840, III, 360.
20 Chappell, loc. cit., p. 88.
21 Sharpe, Ch. K., Ballad Book, 1824, p. 87.
22 Chappell, loc. cit., p. 561.
23 Roxburgh Collection, IV, 433.
24 Child, F. G., English and Scottish Popular Ballads 1894.
25 Smith, G., The Transition Period, 1897, p. 180, in Saintsbury, Periods of European Literature.
26 Child, loc. cit., I, 6 ff.
27 Ibid., I, 157: Lord Randal.
28 Ibid., I, 256: Tamlene.
29 Playford, The Dauncing Master, 1686, p. 206.
30 Murray’s Dictionary: Cushion Dance.
31 Songs for the Nursery, published by Darton & Co., 1812. The verses included in this collection were altered with a view to rendering them more suitable for children.
32 Brand, Popular Antiquities, I, 219.
33 The Dauncing Master, 1686, p. 130.
34 Whitmore, loc. cit., p. 27.
35 Murray’s Dictionary: Horning.
36 Gomme, loc. cit.: Wallflowers:—
Mister Moffit is a very good man,
He came to the door with a hat in his hand,
He pulled up his cloak and showed me the ring;
To-morrow, to-morrow the wedding begins.
First he bought a frying pan, then he bought the cradle,
And then one day the baby was born. Rock, rock the cradle.
(No. 32.)
37 Cf.
A whistling woman and a crowing hen
Are neither fit for God or man.
(1892, p. 506.)
Also:
Une femme qui siffle et une poule qui crie
Porte malheur dans la maison.
38 Scarth, H. M., Aquæ Solis, Notices on Roman Bath, 1864, pp. 16 ff., 22 ff., etc.
39 Ibid., p. 53.
40 Cf. Addy, S. O., House Tales and Traditional Remains, 1895, pp. 86, 120.
41 Bohn, H., A Handbook of Proverbs, 1901, p. 43.
42 Murray’s Dictionary: Bufe.
43 De Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology, 1872, II, p. 209.
44 Reprinted Halliwell, 1849, p. 81 ff.
45 Cf. also Mannhardt, Das Rätsel vom Ei, in Zeitschrift für deutsche Mythologie, IV, 1859, p. 394 ff.
46 Rolland, E., Devinettes on énigmes populaires, 1877, p. 199, from Mons.
47 Rolland, E., Devinettes on énigmes populaires, 1877, p. 98, from Paris.
48 Murray’s Dictionary: Humpty-Dumpty.
49 A workman in Berkshire in 1905 repeated this riddle to H. P.
[50] Murray’s Dictionary: Hoddy-Doddy.
51 The article by Leberecht is in Der Christliche Reformator, Leipzig, 1731, XVII, 28.
52 Tylor, E. B., Primitive Culture, II, 86.
53 Halliwell, 1849, p. 6, citing Thiele, II, 3, 146. I cannot find this book.
54 Frazer, loc. cit., 1900, p. 143; Rolland, Almanach des traditions populaires, 1883, Jan. 1-12.
55 Tylor, E. B., Primitive Culture, I, 87, citing Mendes, Service for the First Nights of the Passover, 1862.
56 Sandys, F. S. A.: Christmas Carols, p. 59 ff.
57 Byrne, S. R., Camp Choruses, 1891, p. 91.
58 Lang, A., “At the Sign of the Ship,” in The Gentleman’s Magazine, January, 1889, p. 328.
59 Addy, S. O., “Two Relics of English Paganism,” in The Gentleman’s Magazine, July, 1890, p. 46.
60 Jessopp, “A Song in Arcady,” in Longman’s Magazine, June, 1889, p. 187.
61 From Stoke Prior, Herefordshire, in Addy, S. O., Household Tales and Traditional Remains, 1895, p. 150.
62 Addy, S. O., loc. cit., p. 150.
63 Frazer, J. G., The Golden Bough, 1900, II, 442 ff.
64 Herd, David, Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, reprint, 1869, II, 210.
65 Mason, M. H., Nursery Rhymes and Country Songs, 1877, p. 47.
66 Waldron, Description of the Isle of Man, reprint 1865, p. 49; also Train, T., History of the Isle of Man, 1845, II, 126.
67 Rolland, loc. cit., II, 295 ff.; Frazer, loc. cit., II, 445 ff.
68 Thomas, N. W., “Animal Superstitions” in Folk-Lore, September, 1900, p. 227.
69 Herd, David, loc. cit., II, 166.
70 Clémént, Madame, Histoire des fêtes civiles et religieuses du Nord, 1834, p. 184. Also, Du Cange, Glossarium, Festum Asinorum.
71 Murray’s Dictionary: Dicky, cuddy, ass, Jackass.
72 (M. L., p. 225.)