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 262
Speck is the root of speculum, a mirror, and it might besuggested by the materialist that the first reflection in ametal mirror was assumed to be a spook. The mirror isan attribute of nearly every ancient Deity, and the BritishDruids seem to have had some system of flashing the sun-light on to the… … Fig. 68.—The Mirror of Thoth.From The Correspondences of Egypt (Odhner, C. T.). Bards, the Speculum of the Pervading Glance. Speculameans a watch-tower, and spectrum means vision. Speech,speak, and spoke, point to the probability that speech wasdeemed to be the voice of the indwelling spook or…
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