[983] Crutched Friars in London marks the site of a priory of the freres of the Crutch or Crouch.
[984] The Sancreed chalice may be connoted ideally and philologically with the Sangraal, Provençal gradal: the apparition of a child in connection with the graal or gradal also permits the equation gradal = cradle. At Llandudno is the stone entitled cryd Tudno, i.e., the cradle of Tudno.
[985] Cyclops, p. 137
[986] The Mistletoe and its Philosophy, p. 31.
[987] “The young people being all assembled in a large meadow, the village band strikes up a simple but lively air, and marches forward, followed by the whole assemblage, leading hand-in-hand (or more closely linked in case of engaged couples) the whole keeping time to the tune with a lively step. The band or head of the serpent keeps marching in an ever-narrowing circle, whilst its train of dancing followers becomes coiled around it in circle after circle. It is now that the most interesting part of the dance commences, for the band, taking a sharp turn about, begins to retrace the circle, still followed as before, and a number of young men with long, leafy branches in their hands as standards, direct this counter-movement with almost military precision.”—Cf. Courtney, Miss M. L., Cornish Feasts and Folklore, p. 39.
[988] The name Kent here appears to be of immemorial antiquity, and was apparently first printed in a 1769 map which shows “Kent’s Hole Field”.
[989] Num. xxiv. 21.
[990] In modern Egyptian kunjey means kinship.
[991] 1 Sam. xv. 6.
[992] Adam, W. H. D., Famous Caves and Catacombs, p. 167.