Byways in British Archaeology

by Walter Johnson

[747] W. G. Wood-Martin, Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland, 1902, I. p. 329; Pagan Ireland, pp. 110-14.

[748] Folk-Lore, IV. 1893, pp. 13-14.

[749] Rev. ii. 17.

[750] Pliny, Nat. Hist., l. VII. c. 40.

[751] Indus. Arts of the Anglo-Saxons, pp. 79-83; C. Roach Smith, Introduction to Bryan Fausett’s Inventorium Sepulchrale, 1856, p. xxvii.

[752] Quoted by C. I. Elton, Origins of Eng. Hist., 2nd edition, 1890, p. 63.

[753] Elton, loc. cit. Cf. C. Roach Smith, Introd. to Invent. Sepul. pp. xxvi-xxvii.

[754] Indus. Arts of the Anglo-Saxons, pp. 78-9. Cf. Pliny, Nat. Hist., l. XXXVII. c. 3.

[755] W. Henderson, Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties, 1879, p. 145.

[756] Origins of Eng. Hist. pp. 144-5. Cf. J. J. A. Worsaae, Indus. Arts of Denmark, 1882, pp. 199-200; Elworthy, Evil Eye, p. 203. The general use of stones, teeth, etc. as Anglo-Saxon charms is discussed in the Jour. Amer. Folk-Lore, XXII. 1909, pp. 134, 135-6.