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Sources:
Anastasia Bogdonova, 'The Strange Rituals and Superstitions of Russian Miners' https://www.minexforum.com/en/the-strangest-rituals-and-superstitions-of-russian-miners/
Christopher Dyer, 'Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520' (2005).
Claude Lecouteux, 'Encyclopedia of Norse and Germanic Folklore, Mythology and Magic' (2016).
Georgius Agricola, De Re Metallica (Translated from the first Latin edition of 1556 by Herbert Clark Hoover) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38015/38015-h/38015-h.htm
Ian Blanchard, 'The Miner and the Agricultural Community in Late Medieval England' https://www.bahs.org.uk/AGHR/ARTICLES/20n2a1.pdf
Jennifer Westwood and Jacqueline Simpson, 'The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England's Legends' (2005).
Johan Egerkrans, 'Vaesen'.
Ken Albaba ,'Beans': A History' (2007).
Lynn Davies, 'Aspects of Mining Folklore in Wales: Reprinted from Folk Life 9' (2009).
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