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 264
memeans Good, is represented.Christianity accounts for thiscurious emblem by a legend thatSt. Agatha was tortured by hav-ing her breasts cut off, and it isquite possible that this nasty tale is correctly translated ; the original tyrant or torturer beingprobably Winter, or the reaper Death, which… … Fig. 75.—From Symbolismof the East and West (Ayn-sley, Mrs. Murray). 254 ARCHAIC ENGLAND [chap. The wheatear or spica, or buck-whe&t was a frequentemblem on our British coins, and to account for this it hasbeen suggested that the British did a considerable exporttrade in corn ; but…
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