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[36] ?Y Cymmrodor,? vol. vi. p. 194; Hunt, p. 120.
[37] Gerv. Tilb. Dcc. iii. c. 85.
[38] Sébillot, ?Contes,? vol. ii. p. 42; ?Litt. Orale,? p. 23; ?Trad. et Super.? p. 109. But in these cases the operation was performed painlessly enough, for the victims were unaware of their loss until they came to look in the glass. In one of Prof. Rhys' stories the eye is pricked with a green rush; ?Y Cymmrodor,? vol. vi. p. 178: Hunt, p. 83. See also Sébillot, ?Contes,? vol. i. p. 119.
[39] Keightley, p. 310; ?Revue des Trad. Pop.? vol. iii. p. 426; Thorpe, vol. ii. p. 129, quoting Thiele. In another Danish tale given on the same page, the woman's blindness is attributed to her having divulged what she had seen in Fairyland.
[40] Sébillot, ?Litt. Orale,? p. 24.
[41] ?Choice Notes,? p. 170; Thorpe, vol. iii. p. 8. The latter form of the story seems more usual. See Gredt, pp. 28, 29, where we are plainly told that the hapless mortals are fetched away by the devil.
[42] Sternberg, p. 132 (see also Thorpe, vol. ii. p. 12); Von Alpenburg, p. 63. See a similar story in Grimm, ?Teut. Myth.? p. 276, from Börner, ?Folk-tales of the Orlagau.? In the latter case, however, the punishment seems to have been inflicted for jeering.
[43] Jahn, p. 177, quoting Temme, ?Volkssagen?; Ovid, ?Metam.? l. iii. fab. 3; Tacitus, ?Germ.? c. 40.
[44] Roger of Wendover, ?Flowers of History,? sub anno 1057. I quote from Dr. Giles' translation.
[45] See his Presidential Address to the Warwickshire Naturalists' and Archæologists' Field Club, 1886.
[46] MS. marked D. This entry is an interpolation in a list of mayors and sheriffs in a different handwriting. There are several such interpolations in the volume. Coventry possesses a number of MS. volumes of annals, one of which (see below) seems to date from the latter part of the sixteenth century, and the rest from the latter part of the seventeenth. In the MS. marked F. (considered by Mr. W. G. Fretton, F.S.A., to be in the handwriting of John Tipper, of Bablake, Coventry, a schoolmaster and local antiquary at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries), and also in the MS. in the British Museum (Additional MSS. 11,364), the entry runs simply:??1678 Michaell Earle (Mercer) Mayor; Francis Clark, George Allatt, Sherriffs. This year ye severall Companies had new streamers, and attended ye Mayor to proclaim ye faire, and each company cloathed one boy or two to augment ye show.? The latter MS. elsewhere speaks of the story of Godiva's ride as ?comonly known, and yearly comemorated by the Mayor, Aldermen, and ye severall companies.?
