107.
{81} Mr. E. Tylor in his Presidential address ('Journal of the
Anthropological Institute,' May 1880, p. 451) remarks: "It appears
from several papers of the Berlin Society as to the German 'high-
fields' or 'heathen-fields' (Hochacker, and Heidenacker) that they
correspond much in their situation on hills and wastes with the
'elf-furrows' of Scotland, which popular mythology accounts for by
the story of the fields having been put under a Papal interdict, so
that people took to cultivating the hills. There seems reason to
suppose that, like the tilled plots in the Swedish forest which
tradition ascribes to the old 'hackers,' the German heathen-fields
represent tillage by an ancient and barbaric population."
{82} White of Selborne has some good remarks on the service
performed by worms in loosening, &c., the soil. Edit, by L.
Jenyns, 1843, p. 281.
{83} 'Zeitschrift fur wissenschaft. Zoolog.' B. xxviii. 1877, p.
360.
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