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 613
yet we findwhat obviously is the same fiery-locked figure with anexpression unmistakably serene. Tradition seems to have preserved the memory of theVirgin Mary as one of the Three Greek Moirae orThree Celtic Mairae or Spinners, for according to anapocryphal gospel Mary was one of the spinsters of… … Figs. 355 to 358.—British. true purple and the scarlet fell to the lot of Mary, and she took them and went away to her house. ^ The purple heart-shaped mulberry in Greek is moria, and the Athenian 1 Cf. Stoughton, Rev. J., Golden Legends of the Olden Time, p. 9, XI.] THE FAIR MAID 597 district…
Archaeology · England -- Antiquities
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