[555] Cf. The Alphabet, i., 12.
[556] Lord Avebury. Preface to A Guide to Avebury, p. 5.
[557] Durandus, Rationale.
[558] “Ruddy was the sea-beach and the circular revolution was performed by the attendance of the white bands in graceful extravagance when the assembled trains were assembled in dancing and singing in cadence with garlands and ivy branches on the brow.”—Cf. Davies, E. Mythology of British Druids.
[559] History, V., 5.
[560] Ancient British Coins, p. 178.
[561] “Copied by Higgins, Anacalypsis, on the authority of Dubois, who states (vol. iii., p. 88), that it was found on a stone in a church in France, where it had been kept religiously for six hundred years. Dubois regards it as wholly astrological, and as having no reference to the story told in Genesis.”
[562] It is quite improbable that there was any foundation for Stow’s surmise that the epithet Poor was applied to the parish of St. Peter in Brode Street, “for a difference from others of that name, sometimes peradventure a poor parish”. It is, however, possible that the church was dedicated to Peter the Hermit, i.e., the poor Peter.
[563] Cf. Abelson, J., Jewish Mysticism, p. 34.
[564] Cf. also Brachet A., Ety. Dictionary of French Language: “A two-wheeled carriage which being light leaps up”. Had our authorities been considering phaeton, this definition might have passed muster. Although Skeat connects phaeton with the Solar Charioteer he nevertheless connotes phantom. Why?