[77] The Land’s End District, p. 72.
[78] Edmunds, p. 72.
[79] Hope, p. 40.
[80] St. Cleer = St. Cledod, A.D. 482. The arms of St. Cleer are the Sun in its glory.
[81] Description of Westmeath, 1682, quoted by Vallencey, i., 121.
[82] Hazlitt, ii., 616.
CHAPTER XXII
WHERE DID THE BRITISH WORSHIP ORIGINATE?
The recent chapters have, I think, established, by the evidence derived from folklore and tradition, that there was in the long past a combined worship of trees, wells and streams in the neighbourhood of sacred places, the sacred place being a stone circle or some other monument built up of stones.
We have gathered also that the chief times of worship were on or near the most important dates defined for us by the May year, the original year marked out by the various agricultural and other operations proper to the various seasons.