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Strange survivals : some chapters in the history of man (1892)

Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924 · London : Methuen & Co. · leaf 284

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Diiringsfekl. Trad, et Legendes de la Belgique,1870, T. II., p. 239. HOLES, 27: connection between these cakes and the dead is lost,but the cakes are still made. This custom is a trans-formation under Christian influence of the still earlierusage of putting food on the graves. When food anddrink… … tS- 53—DOLMEN AT LARAMIERE (I-OT), WITH CUP HOLLOW ON COVERER. In like manner there arc basins cut on some of thedolmens, and other depressions that were natural wereemployed for the same purpose. On the coverer of adolmen close to the railway at Assier, in the Depart-ment of Lot, is such a rock…

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