[2] A. Tille, Die Geschichte der Deutschen Weihnacht, Leipzig, 1893, p. 30.

[3] O. von Reinsberg-DÜringsfeld, Traditions et LÉgendes de la Belgique, p. 302.

[4] Do., p. 323.

[5] Reinsberg-DÜringsfeld, Das festliche Jahr der germanischen VÖlker, Leipzig, 1863, pp. 360 ff.

[6] Do., pp. 362, 363.

[7] P.M. Hough, Dutch Life in Town and Country, London and New York, 1901, pp. 116 ff. The present account of St. Nicholas customs in Holland is based on notes from the book by Hough, but is not quoted exactly in order of details nor in wording.

[8] Do., p. 121.

[9] I. von Zingerle, Zeitschrift fÜr Volkskunde, ii., 329 ff.

[10] Hough, op. cit., p. 117.

[11] Do., p. 125.

[12] Do., p. 125.

[13] I. von Zingerle, op. cit., p. 343.

[14] Hough, op. cit., p. 125.

[15] Do., p. 126.

[16] Reinsberg-DÜringsfeld, Das festliche Jahr, p. 362.

[17] Tille, op. cit., p. 35.

[18] Brand, Popular Antiquities, i., p. 420.

[19] Tille, op. cit., p. 299.

[20] Do., p. 36.

[21] Do., p. 33.

[22] Do., p. 36.

[23] Do., p. 202.

[24] Reinsberg-DÜringsfeld, Das festliche Jahr, p. 382; C. A. Miles, Christmas, London, 1912, p. 231.

[25] St. Nicholas, Our Holidays, New York, 1916, p. 64.

[26] W. A. Wheeler, Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction, Boston, 1883.

[27] Tille, op. cit., p. 119.

[28] Reinsberg-DÜringsfeld, op. cit., p. 342.

[29] Reinsberg-DÜringsfeld, quoted by Miles, op. cit., p. 277, footnote.

[30] Hough, op. cit., p. 120.

[31] G. de Saint Laurent, Guide de l’Art ChrÉtien, 1874, v., p. 349.

[32] A. Butler, Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and other Principal Saints, London, 1838.

[33] New York Times, Oct. 24, 1915.

[34] Mrs. Jameson, Sacred and Legendary Art, vol. ii.

[35] The Golden Legend, Caxton translation, Temple Classics series, vol. ii., pp. 109-122.

[36] Do., pp. 119, 120.

[37] Mrs. Jameson, op. cit.; also H. Thode, Franz von Assisi, Berlin, 1904.

[38] C. Cahier, CaractÉristiques des saints dans l’art populaire, Paris, 1867, vol. i.

[39] E. Anichkof, “St. Nicholas and Artemis,” Folk-Lore, v., pp. 108 ff.

[40] Hough, op. cit., p. 122.

[41] Brand, op. cit., i., p. 417.

[42] Tille, op. cit., p. 32.

[43] Do., p. 300.

[44] Brand, op. cit., i., p. 420.

[45] R. T. Hampson, Medii Aevi Kalendarium, London, 1841, ii., p. 76.

[46] T. Wright, Songs and Carols, Warton Club, 1856, p. 4.

[47] Brand, op. cit., i., p. 421.

[48] Brady, Clavis Calendaria, quoted by W. Hone, The Every-Day Book, London, 1838.

[49] New York Times, April 18, 1915.

[50] Mrs. Jameson, op. cit.

[51] Brand, op. cit., ii., p. 356.

[52] Encyclopedia Britannica, article “Pawnbrokers.”

[53] Cf. the story of the Jew who left his property under the protection of the image of St. Nicholas.

[54] Galleria antica e moderna.

[55] C. A. Miles, op. cit., p. 168.

[56] A. F. Leach, “The Schoolboy’s Feast,” Fortnightly Review, vol. lix., pp. 128-141.

[57] E. K. Chambers, The MediÆval Stage, London, 1903, i., p. 294. The total amount of the debt to Chambers’s work it has not been possible to indicate in these notes.

[58] Do., p. 357.

[59] Do., p. 348.

[60] Brand, op. cit., i., p. 423.

[61] Chambers, op. cit., p. 338.

[62] Tille, op. cit., p. 31, quoted by Chambers.

[63] Reinsberg-DÜringsfeld, Traditions et LÉgendes de la Belgique, p. 348.

[64] Leach, op. cit.

[65] H. Thode, Franz von Assisi, Berlin, 1909.

[66] Verses 1080-1143.

[67] Verses 208-216.

[68] M. Hamilton, op. cit., pp. 47, 48.

[69] G. R. Coffman, A New Theory concerning the Origin of the Miracle Play, Univ. of Chicago diss., 1914.

[70] Henry Morley, English Writers, 1889, vol. iii., pp. 105-114.

[71] E. Du Meril, Les Origines Latines du ThÉÂtre Moderne, new edition, Paris, 1897, pp. 272-276.

[72] C. M. Gayley, Plays of our Forefathers, New York, 1907, p. 64.

[73] Du Meril, op. cit., pp. 276-284.

[74] Gaston Paris, La littÉrature franÇaise au Moyen-Age, Paris, 1890, §167.

[75] W. Creizenach, Geschichte des neueren Dramas, Halle, 1893, i., pp. 139-141.

[76] E. Bisland and A. Hoyt, Seekers in Sicily.

[77] Brand, op. cit., pp. 363, 364.

[78] Do., pp. 363, 364.

[79] H. F. Feilberg, Jul, Copenhagen, 1909, i., p. 105.

[80] C. Cahier, op. cit.

[81] This additional list is derived from somewhat scattered references in works cited above by Brand and by Cahier.

[82] M. Hamilton, op. cit., pp. 29, 30.

[83] E. Anichkof, op. cit., pp. 108 ff.

[84] Brand, op. cit., i., p. 419.

[85] Anichkof, op. cit.

[86] Zingerle, op. cit., p. 334.

[87] Anichkof, op. cit., p. 109.

[88] First part of Henry IV., Act II., scene i.

[89] Brand, op. cit., i., p. 418. Cf. also the Oxford Dictionary under Nicholas.

[90] T. Wright, op. cit., p. 99.

[91] M. Hamilton, op. cit., p. 16.

[92] Do., p. 13.

[93] Do., p. 18.

[94] Do., p. 20.

[95] Do., p. 33.

[96] Do., p. 34.

[97] Do., p. 31.

[98] J. C. Lawson, Modern Greek Folk-Lore and Ancient Greek Religion, Cambridge, 1910, p. 135.

[99] M. Hamilton, op. cit., p. 30.

[100] E. Anichkof, op. cit., p. 114.

[101] Do., pp. 115, 116.

[102] Hampson, op. cit., p. 68.

[103] Keightley, Fairy Mythology, i., pp. 234, 235, quoted by Hampson, op. cit., p. 75.

[104] Revue des traditions populaires, i., p. 7, quoted by Anichkof.

[105] This is the main thesis of the article by Anichkof.

[106] J. W. Wolf, Hocker, and Al Kaufmann, quoted by Zingerle, op. cit., p. 331.

[107] A. Tille, Yule and Christmas, London, 1899, p. 115; H. Feilberg, Jul, Copenhagen, 1904, ii., p. 179.

[108] C. A. Miles, op. cit., p. 221.

[109] C. Cahier, op. cit.

[110] Wace, op. cit., vv. 342 ff.

[111] J. V. Jarnik, Zeitschrift fÜr Volkskunde, ii., pp. 348, 349.

[112] Miles, op. cit., p. 221.