[536] P. 989. Speaking of the wonderful horse of Giraldus de Cabreriis; Gervase says, Si Fadus erat, i. e. says Leibnitz, incantatus, ut Fadæ, Fatæ, Fées.
[537] Cambry, Monumens Celtiques, p. 342. The author says, that Esterelle, as well as all the Fairies, was the moon. This we very much doubt. He derives her name from the Breton Escler, Brightness, Lauza, from Lac'h (Irish Cloch), a flat stone.
[538] Monuments religieux des Volces Tectosages, ap. Mlle. Bosquet, Normandie, etc., p. 92: see above, pp. [161], [342].
[539] See Leroux de Lincy, ap. Mlle. Bosquet, p. 93, who adds "In Lower Normandy, in the arrondissement of Bayeux, they never neglect laying a table for the protecting genius of the babe about to be born;" see our note on Virg. Buc. iv. 63. In a collection of decrees of Councils made by Burchard of Worms, who died in 1024, we read as follows: "Fecisti, ut quaedam mulieres in quibusdam temporibus anni facere solent, ut in domo tua mensam praepares et tuos cibos et potum cum tribus cultellis supra mensam poneres, ut si venissent tres illae sorores quas antiqua posteritas et antiqua stultitia Parcas nominavit, ibi reficirentur ... ut credens illas quas tu dieis esse sorores tibi posse aut hic aut in futuro prodesse?" Grimm. Deut. Mythol. Anhang, p. xxxviii., where we are also told that these Parcæ could give a man at his birth the power of becoming a Werwolf. All this, however, does not prove that they were the origin of the Fées: see above, p. [6].
[540] This may remind us of the Neck or Kelpie above, p. 162. It seems confirmatory of our theory respecting the Visigoths, p. 466.
[541] Greg. Tur. De Glor. Confess. ch. xxxi., ap. Grimm. p. 466.
[542] Pilgrimage to Auvergne, ii. p. 294, seq.
[543] Cambry, Monuments Celtiques, p. 232.
[544] It is evidently a cromleach. What is said of the nature of the stones is also true of Stonehenge.
[545] Lettres de Madame S. à sa Fille. Périgueux, 1830: by M. Jouannet of Bordeaux.