39/72 67, 209, 210.] To hail the coming of spring they made a figure of May, a mannikin of flowers and foliage.[211] [Footnote 211: _Ibid._, vol.ii, p. 434.] Close by _l'Arbre-des-Dames_, beneath a hazel-tree, there was a mandrake. He promised wealth to whomsoever should dare by night, and according to the prescribed rites, to tear him from the ground,[212] not fearing to hear him cry or to see blood flow from his little human body and his forked feet. |