They could be inside blockquotes, and are lazy

......

[^foo]

> [^foo]: bar
baz

......

<p data-sourcepos="1:1-1:6"><sup data-sourcepos="1:1-1:6" class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn1" id="fnref1">[1]</a></sup></p>
<blockquote data-sourcepos="3:1-4:3">
</blockquote>
<hr class="footnotes-sep">
<section class="footnotes">
<ol class="footnotes-list">
<li data-sourcepos="3:3-4:3" id="fn1" class="footnote-item">
<p data-sourcepos="3:11-4:3">bar
baz <a href="#fnref1" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a></p>
</li>
</ol>
</section>