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- Harold Orton, Survey ofEnglish Dialects: Introduction, 2nd edn. (Leeds, 1964).
- James Brittenand Robert Holland, A Dictionary of English Plant-Names (London, 1878–86); Geoffrey Grigson, The Englishman’s Flora (1958; rpt. London, 1960); Heinrich Marzell, Wörterbuch der deutschen Pflanzennamen (Leipzig, 1943–72; Stuttgart & Wiesbaden, 1977–79).
- But see Iona and Peter Opie, Children's Games in Street and Playground (Oxford and New York 1969), pp. 227–232.
- Marzell, 1, pp. 307–12.
- D. Parry-Jones, Welsh Children's Games and Pastimes (Denbigh, 1964), pp. 38–41.
- Marzell, 4, pp. 74–75.
- Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905; rpt. London, 1970). References are to be found under the appropriate headwords.
- J. B. Smith, ‘Dumbledores and Flappadocks: Some Variations on a Proverial Theme,’ The Dorset Yearbook (1992), pp. 50–54.
- See Wright under sip-sap.
- Renate Brockpähler, ‘Bastlösereime in Westfalen,' Jahrbuch für Volkslied forschung, 15 (1970), p. 87.
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- Wright.
- Iona and Peter Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (195i; rpt. Oxford, 1977), pp. 107–08.
- Wright.
- Jacqueline Simpson, ‘Philip!’, Plant-Lore Notes and News, 27 ( November 1992), p. 123.
- The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edn. (Oxford, 1989), 9, 680.
- See for instance Ernst Gamillscheg, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der französischen Sprache p. 699.
- Friedrich Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 22nd edn., rev. Elmar New York, 1989), pp. 765–66.
- Wilhelm Mannhardt, Wald— und Feldkulte, 2nd edn., 1 (Berlin, 1904), pp. 449–62.
- Iona Opieand Moira Tatem, A Dictionary of Superstitions (Oxford and New York, 1989), pp. 374–75 and 91.
- Ibid., pp. 132–33, 184, 312 and 414.
- Ibid., pp. 126 and 156.
- Eric Partidge, A Dictionary ofCatch Phrases, ed. Paul Beale, 2nd edn. (London, Melbourne and Henley), p. 112.
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- Lutz Röhrich, Das groft Wörterbuch der sprichwörtlichen Redensarten (Freiburg, Basel and Vienna, 1991). pp. 1677–78.
- Iona and Peter Opie, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959; rpt. London, Oxford and New York, 1959) p. 310–13.
- Handwörterbuch des deutschen Aberglaubens, 9 (Berlin, 1938–41), p. 287.
- The Oxford Book of English Proverbs, 3rd edn. (1970; rpt. London, 1975), p. 359.
- Handworterbudfdes deutschen Aberglaubens, 3 (Berlin and Leipzig, 1930–31), pp. 1534–36; pp. 672–73
- R. L. Tongue, Somerset Folklore (London, 1965), pp. 31–32.
- See Wright under nut-crack night.
- Opie and Tatem, pp. 289–90.
- Martyn F. Wakelin, English Dialects: An Introduction, rev. edn. (London, 1977), p. 10.