Archaic England, an essay in deciphering prehistory from megalithic monuments, earthworks, customs, coins, placenames, and faeric superstitions (1919)
Bayley, Harold · London : Chapman & Hall ltd. · leaf 161
arly with the gipsies.The Komany word for moon is choon, the Cornish for fullmoon is cann, and it is a curious thing that the EtrurianDante entitles the Man in the Moon, Cain : — 150 ARCHAIC ENGLAND [CHAP. Now doth Cain with fork of thorns confineOn either hemisphere touching the waveBeneath the… … Fig. 39.—The Holy Ghost, as a child of eight or ten years old, in thearms of the Father. French Miniature of the XVI. cent. From Cliristiaii Iconograpliy (Didron). In the illustrations overleaf of mediaeval papermarks,some of which depict the Man in the Moon in his con-ventional low-crowned,…
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