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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 280

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Fig. 108. — Green Man(Roxburghe Ballads, circaIC.^O).—From The His-tory of Siqnbonrds (Tjar-wood & Hotten). VI.] PUCK 269 being forced to drink two cups, whereof the one was pre-pared to make him mad, the other to kill him by poison.The prosperity of an emblem lies entirely in the Eye, andit is… … FiG. 104.—From The Everijday Book (Hono, W.). ceptions of men whose minds dwelt normally on thingsmost miserable and conceived little higher. Thus seem-ingly the light-shod Mercury was degraded into Georgesalleged torture of being made to run in red hot shoes :the heavy pillars laid upon him…

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