The Science of Fairy Tales / An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology

[47] This statue used to be decked out on the occasion of the procession in the long peruke and neckcloth of the reign of Charles II. See T. Ward, ?Collections for the Continuation of Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire? (2 vols., fol. MS., Brit. Mus., Additional MSS., Nos. 29,264, 29,265), vol. ii. fol. 143.

[48] MS. marked E, Coventry, seventeenth century. A careful examination of the language of Roger of Wendover, Matthew Paris, John of Brompton, and Matthew of Westminster, shows that Roger of Wendover's account is the source of the other three, Matthew Paris copying most closely, and John of Brompton most freely. John of Brompton and Matthew of Westminster omit the escort. Their statement as to Godiva's being unseen refers to the hair which covered her; and the latter informs us, with a touch of rhetoric, that Leofric regarded it as a miracle.

[49] Rudder, p. 307. The Rev. W. Taprell Allen, M.A., Vicar of St. Briavels, has been kind enough to supply me with the correction from local inquiries and intimate acquaintance with the traditions and affairs of the parish extending over many years. See also ?Gent. Mag. Lib.? (Manners and Customs), p. 230.

[50] Liebrecht, p. 104.

[51] Burton, ?Nights,? vol. ix. p. 255; Burton, ?Supp. Nights,? vol. iii. p. 570 (Appendix by Mr. W. A. Clouston). Kurroglú flourished in the second half of the seventeenth century.

[52] This story is edited by Jülg in Mongolian and German (Innsbruck, 1867). Miss Busk gives a free adaptation rather than a translation of the German version, ?Sagas,? p. 315. Prof. De Gubernatis, ?Zool. Myth.? vol. i. p. 138, of course interprets it as a sun-myth?an interpretation to which the names Sunshine and Moon, and the date of the adventure (the fifteenth of the month), lend themselves.

[53] Von Hahn, vol. ii. p. 225; ?Tour du Monde,? vol. xxi. p. 342, quoted by Liebrecht, p. 105.

[54] ?Panjab N. and Q.? vol. iii. pp. 41, 115; ?Journal Ethnol. Soc. London,? N. S., vol. i. p. 98.

[55] The information relating to the Bona Dea has been collected by Preller, ?Röm. Myth.? vol. i. p. 398; and see the authorities he has cited.

[56] Ellis, p. 226; Pliny, ?Nat. Hist.? l. xxii. c. 1. For the information as to the procession at Southam I am indebted to Mr. W. G. Fretton, who formerly lived there.

[57] ?Germania,? c. 40; cf. c. 9.

[58] Nicholson, p. 32.

[59] I am indebted to Mr. Samuel Timmins, F.S.A., and to Mr. W. G. Fretton, F.S.A., for a great amount of local information and other assistance which they have spared no pains to render me, and to the Town Clerk of Coventry for permission to inspect the invaluable local manuscripts belonging to the Corporation.