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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 167

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unded the surrounding shrines. InIreland, Kil as in Kilpatrick, Kilbride, meant cell or shrine,whence it may be deduced that the river Cuneburn orKilburn was a sacred stream on the banks of which manyGodwyns had their cells. In this neighbourhood the place-names Hollybush Vale, Hollybush Tavern,… … Fig. dO.—From The Everyday Book (Hone, W.). To every branch a torch they tic To every torch a light apply, At each new light send forth huzzahs Till all the tree is in a blaze ; Then bear it flaming through the town, With minstrelsy and rockets thrown.^ At the Westmorland festival the holly tree…

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