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[636] _Cf._ Herbert, A., _Cyclops Christianius_, p. 163.

[637] _Surnames_, p. 31.

[638] _Cf._ Hazlitt, W. Carew, _Faith and Folklore_, ii., 389.

[639] _Teutonic Mythology_, Rydberg, p. 360.

[640] _Demonology_, 177.

[641] _Cf._ Wright, T., _Essays on Archaeological Subjects_, i., 120.

[642] Davies, D., _The Ancient Celtic Church of Wales_, p. 14.

[643] _Cf._ _Sketches of Irish History_, anon., Dublin, 1844.

[644] _Cf._ Gordon, E. O., _Prehistoric London, its Mounds and Circles_, p. 67.

[645] Borlase, _Cornwall_, p. 208.

[646] _Cf._ Bonwick, J., _Irish Druids_, p. 11.

[647] _De Bello Gallico_, VI., x., 17.

[648] Quoted by Bryant from _Appollon Argonaut_, L. 4, V. 611.

[649] _Cf._ Wilkes, Anna, _Ireland, Ur of the Chaldees_, p. 88.

[650] Borlase, _Antiquities of Cornwall_, p. 173.

[651] p. 6.

[652] _Odyssey_, XII.

[653] Johnson, W., _Byways_, p. 440.

[654] As all our _Avons_ are traced to Sanscrit _ap_, meaning water, one may here note the Old English word _snape_, meaning _a spring_ in arable ground.

[655] In the mediaeval _Story of Asenath_, the Angel who describes himself as "Prince of the House of G.o.d and Captain of His Host," and was thus presumably Michael, says to Asenath; "Look within thine _Aumbrey_, and thou shall find withal to furnish thy table". Then she hastened thereto and found "a store of Virgin honey, white as snow of sweetest savour". The archangel tells Asenath that "all whom Penitence bringeth before Him shall eat of this honey gathered by the bees of Paradise, from the dew of the roses of Heaven, and those who eat thereof shall never see death but shall live for evermore."--_Auca.s.sin and Nicolette and other Mediaeval Romances_, p. 209 (Everyman's Library).

[656] Gordon, A. O., _Prehistoric London_, p. 66.

[657] _Lost Language_, ii., 141.

[658] _Golden Legend_, iii., 117.

[659] _Cornwall_, p. 207.

[660] Hunt, J., _Popular Romances of the West of England_, p. 76.

[661] P. 20

[662] Exod. xxvi. 7.

[663] Arnold, E., _Light of Asia_.

[664] _Cf._ Abelson, J., _Jewish Mysticism_, p. 137.

[665] The Bryan of popular ballad seems to have been famed for the casting of his glad eye:--

"Bryan he was tall and strong Right blithsome rolled his een."

--_Percy Reliques_, i., 276.

[666] Hughes, T., _Scouring the White Horse_, p. 110.

[667] Taylor, J., _The Devil's Pulpit_, ii., 297.

[668] P. 344.

[669] Courtney, Miss M. L., _Cornish Feasts and Folklore_, p. 175.

[670] Among the Maoris potent powers were supposed to reside in the human eye. "When a warrior slew a chief, he immediately gouged out his eyes and swallowed them, the _atua tonga_, or divinity, being supposed to reside in that organ; thus he not only killed the body, but also possessed himself of the soul of his enemy, and consequently the more chiefs he slew, the greater did his divinity become."--Taylor, R., _Te Ika A Maui, or New Zealand and its Inhabitants_.

[671] _Mykenae_, p. 77.

[672] B.M., _Guide to the Early Iron Age_, p. 107.

[673] _Archaic Sculpturings_, p. 23.

[674] _Britannia Antiquissima_, p. 50.

[675] Coles, F. R., _The Motes of Kirkcudbrights.h.i.+re_, p. 151.

[676] Johnson, W., _Byways_, p. 195.

[677] _Lyonesse, a Handbook for the Isles of Scilly_, p. 70.

[678] The Cambridges.h.i.+re Comberton is situated on the Bourn brook: there is also a Great and Little Comberton underlying Bredon Hill in the Persh.o.r.e district of Worcester.

[679] The term "Bluestone" in the West of England meant _holy stone_.

[680] Wilson, J. G., _Imperial Gazetteer_.

[681] On the tip-top of Highgate Hill is now standing an _Englefield_ House immediately adjacent to an _Angel_ Inn.

[682] _Lyonesse_, p. 41.

[683] _Ibid._, p. 39.

[684] _Ibid._, p. 39.