[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] Mykenæ, 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 Kirkcudbrightshire, p. 151.
[676] Johnson, W., Byways, p. 195.
[677] Lyonesse, a Handbook for the Isles of Scilly, p. 70.
[678] The Cambridgeshire Comberton is situated on the Bourn brook: there is also a Great and Little Comberton underlying Bredon Hill in the Pershore district of Worcester.
[679] The term “Bluestone” in the West of England meant holy stone.