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 365
e Dioscuri — those far-famed heroes Castor andPollux—were said to havebeen born out of an egg laidby Leda the Swan : elsewherethe Dioscuri were known asthe Cabiri, a term which isradically abiri. It is prob-able that St. Barbara wasonce represented with the emblems of the two Dioscuri orCabiri, for… … Fig. 191. — From T]ie Cross :Heathen and Christian (Brock,M.). Folklcyrc,XXIX., i., p. 182. VII.] OBERON 355 Virgin was extended Andrew-wise in benediction. Thenext torture recorded of St. Barbara was the scorching olher sides with burning lamps, from which we may deducethat the Virgin was once…
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