[6]. Lutheran I am not; nor Zwinglian; still less Anabaptist. In short. I am one who believes in, honors, and respects the holy, true, and Catholic Church.
[7]. Childlike simplicity.
[8]. The Jukes: A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease, and Heredity, etc. By R. L. Dugdale. With an Introduction by Elisha Harris, M.D. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
[9]. The Catholic World, June, 1876, “Hammond on the Nervous System.”
[10]. Some Remarks on Crime-Cause. Richard Vaux.
[11]. St. Hedwige, Duchess of Silesia and Poland. By F. Becker. Collection of Historical Portraits. No. VIII. Herder & Co., Freiburg in Breisgau and Strassburg. 1872.
[12]. Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury.
[13]. Belatucadus was also the name of a divinity worshipped by the ancient Britons. A rock situated a little to the north of Belenus still retains the name of Tombalaine or Tombalène, formerly Tumba Beleni. Several strange legends linger about both these rocks. The ancient poem of Brut, of which a MS. copy is preserved in the archivium of Mount St. Michael, has the story of King Arthur, Sir Launcelot, and Elaine, and makes out the etymology of the northern rock to be Le Tombe (d’)Elaine.
[14]. These priestesses were in the habit of selling to the seafaring men who came to consult them arrows of pretended virtue in calming tempests, if thrown into the sea, during a storm, by one of the youngest sailors on board. In the ancient Druidic poem called Ar Rannou, or The Series, where the Child says, “Sing me the number Nine,” the Druid answers, “... Nine Korrigan with flowers in their hair, robed in white wool, dancing around the fountain in the light of the full moon.” (See De Villemarqué, Barzaz Breiz, p. 6.) Pomponius Mela designates as Garrigena (evidently Korrigan Latinized) the “nine priestesses or sorceresses of the Armorican Isle of Sein.”
[15]. Monsieur de la Fruglaye mentions the existence, near to Morlaix, of a vast forest which has been submerged by the ocean. In a black and compact stratum, which is covered for the most part by a fine white sand, he found traces of very ancient and abundant vegetation: whole trees thrown in every direction—yews, oaks, large trunks, and green mosses. Beneath this layer the soil appeared to be that of meadows, with reeds and rushes, etc. Here all the plants were undisturbed and in a vertical position, and the roots of the ferns still had their downy coating. (See Observations sur les origines du Mont St. Michel. Maury.)