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 491
land of allotting to servants the years allowancefor horse-meat on St. Helens, Elines, or Elyns day.* Itis believed that horse meat is now taboo in Britain, becausethe eating of horse was so persistently denounced byChristianity as a heathen rite. ^ Cacus figures in mythology as a huge giant, the… … Fi<;. :i(is.—British Altar. By kind permission of the authorities of the-British Museum. To foci }>a<J< 47il.- IX.] beides bairns 479 I have shown elsewhere some of the inniuneiable formsunder which the fires of Elmo, or the heavenly Twain,were represented. In England it is evident that…
Archaeology · England -- Antiquities
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