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 783
ntemplating Truth, -ihe younger men onthe right viewing the Maiden draped in the garb of con-vention, the older ones on the left beholding her nude inher symbolic aspect as the feeder of two serpents: it isnot improbable that Quendred, the miraculous light-bearingMother of St. Dunstan, was a… … Fig. 4G1.—Britannia, a.d. 1919.Jill /leiiiussio/i of the IroprieMr.s of Punch XIII.] ENGLISH EDENS 763 sites appears to me to prove nothing in respect of age, butrather a survival of the ancient superstition that the fairiespossessed from time immemorial certain fields which couldnot be taken away…
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