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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 282

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hon, Tarragone, or Dragon is obvious fromthe dragon-slaying incident. Little George has already VI.] PUCK 271 been identified by Baring-Gould with Tammuz, the Adonis,or Beauty, who is identified with the Sun : ^ Thou shin-ing and vanishing in the beauteous circle of the Horee,dwelling at one time… … Fig. 107.—From TJi^ Everyday Book (Hone, W.). Star of the Morning, and the Sun of Truth, figuresin Cornwall, particularly at Helston, where there is stilldanced the so-called Furry dance: Helston, moreover,claims to show the great granite stone which was intendedto cover the mouth of the Nether…

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