the Sunday of the brandons, bures, bordes, or boides, according to the place.  The brandons are the torches which are carried about the streets and the fields; the bonfires, as we have seen, bear another name.  A curious custom, observed on the same Sunday in Franche-Comte, requires that couples married within the year should distribute boiled peas to all the young folks of both sexes who demand them at the door.  The lads and lasses go about from house to house, making the customary request; in some places they wear masks or are otherwise disguised.  See Ch.  Beauquier, op. cit. pp. 31-33.

[274] Curiously enough, while the singular is granno-mio, the plural is grannas-mias.

[275] Dr. Pommerol, “La fete des Brandons et le dieu Gaulois Grannus,” Bulletins et Memoires de la Societe d’Anthropologie de Paris, v.  Serie, ii. (1901) pp. 427-429.

[276] Op. cit. pp. 428 sq.

[277] H. Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, vol. ii.  Pars i.  (Berlin, 1902) pp. 216 sq., Nos. 4646-4652.

[278] (Sir) John Rhys, Celtic Heathendom (London, 1888), pp. 22-25.

[279] Emile Hublard, Fetes du Temps Jadis, les Feux du Careme (Mons, 1899), p. 38, quoting Dom Grenier, Histoire de la Province de Picardie.

[280] E. Hublard, op. cit. p. 39, quoting Dom Grenier.

[281] M. Desgranges, “Usages du Canton de Bonneval,” Memoires de la Societe Royale des Antiquaires de France, i. (Paris, 1817) pp. 236-238; Felix Chapiseau, Le folk-lore de la Beauce et du Perche (Paris, 1902), i. 315 sq.

[282] John Brand, Popular Antiquities of Great Britain (London, 1882-1883), i. 100.

[283] E. Cortet, Essai sur les fetes religieuses (Paris, 1867), pp. 99 sq.; La Bresse Louhannaise, Mars, 1906, p. 111.

[284] A. de Nore, Coutumes, mythes et traditions des provinces de France (Paris and Lyons, 1846), pp. 283 sq. A similar, though not identical, custom prevailed at Valenciennes (ibid. p. 338).

[285] A. de Nore, op. cit. p. 302.

[286] Desire Monnier, Traditions populaires comparees (Paris, 1854), pp. 191 sq.

[287] Laisnel de la Salle, Croyances et legendes du centre de la France (Paris, 1875). i. 35 sqq.

[288] Jules Lecoeur, Esquisses du Rocage Normand (Conde-sur-Noireau, 1887), ii. 131 sq. For more evidence of customs of this sort observed in various parts of France on the first Sunday in Lent, see Madame Clement, Histoire des Fetes civiles et religieuses, etc., du Departement du Nord*[2] (Cambrai, 1836), pp. 351 sqq.; Emile Hublard, Fetes du Temps Jadis, les Feux du Careme (Mons, 1899), pp. 33 sqq.

[289] J.H.  Schmitz, Sitten und Sagen, Lieder, Spruechwoerter und Raethsel des Eifler Volkes (Treves, 1856-1858), i. 21-25; N. Hocker, in Zeitschrift fuer deutsche Mythologie und Sittenkunde, i. (1853) p. 90; W. Mannhardt, Der Baumkultus der Germanen und ihrer Nachbarstaemme (Berlin, 1875), p. 501.