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Rev. Arch. i. 227, xxxiii. 283.
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Hoare, Modern Wiltshire, 56; Camden, Britannia, 815; Hazlitt, 194; Campbell, Witchcraft, 84. In the Highlands spindle-whorls are thought to have been perforated by the adder, which then passes through the hole to rid itself of its old skin.
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Pliny, xxxii. 2. 24; Reinach, RC xx. 13 f.
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Rev. Arch. i. 227; Greenwell, British Barrows, 165; Elton, 66; Renel, 95f., 194f.
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Reinach, BF 286, 289, 362.
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O'Curry, MS Mat. 387. See a paper by Hartland, "The Voice of the Stone of Destiny," Folk-lore Journal, xiv. 1903.
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Petrie, Trans. Royal Irish Acad. xviii. pt. 2.
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O'Curry, MS. Mat. 393 f.
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Sébillot, i. 334 f.
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Trollope, Brittany, ii. 229; Bérenger-Féraud, Superstitions et Survivances, i. 529 f.; Borlase, Dolmens of Ireland, iii. 580, 689, 841 f.