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 318
d him dancing and singingfrom home to home. Amor, like Homer, was reputed blind. VI.] PUCK 307 and the what-nots on Fig. 167 may possibly be leaves, thesymbols of the living, loving Elf, or Life— this senior-junior, giant-dwarf Dan Cupid . It was practically a universal pagan custom to celebratethe… … Fig. 1G8.—From The Everyday Book (Hone, W.). In other parts of Bohemia—and the curious reader willfind several Bohemias on the Ordnance maps of England—the song varies; it is not Summer that comes back butLife:— 308 ARCHAIC ENGLAND [CHAP. VI. We have carried away Death,And brought back Life. At the…
Archaeology · England -- Antiquities
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