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[744] Folk-Lore, IV. 1893, p. 14; R. Munro, Prehistoric Scotland, 1899, p. 284.
[745] Harlyn Bay, p. 36.
[746] Sir J. Rhŷs, Celtic Folklore, Welsh and Manx, 1891, I. pp. 344-5 (authority given).