The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries

by W. Y. Evans-Wentz

[489] W. H. Prescott, Conquest of Peru, i, c. 3.

[490] Rochefort, Iles Antilles, p. 365; cf. Tylor, P. C.,⁴ ii. 424.

[491] Colebrooke, Essays, vols. i, iv, v; cf. Tylor, P. C.,⁴ 425.

[492] Illus. Hist. and Pract. of Thugs (London, 1837), p. 46; cf. Tylor, P. C.,⁴ ii. 425.

[493] Augustin, de Serm. Dom. in Monte, ii. 5; cf. Tylor, P. C.,⁴ ii. 427-8.

[494] Ezek. viii. 16. The popular opinion that Christians face the east in prayer, or have altars eastward because Jerusalem is eastward, does not fit in with facts.

[495] Cf. Lenormant, Chaldean Magic, p. 88; also Tylor, Prim. Cult.,⁴ ii. 48-9.

[496] Though not a Mason, the writer draws his knowledge from Masons of the highest rank, and from published works by Masons like Mr. Carty’s The Great Pyramid Jeezeh.

[497] Cf. Borlase, Dolmens of Ireland, ii. 347 n.

[498] C. Piazzi Smyth, Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid (London, 1890).