[193] Virgil, _The Æneid_, Bk. III., c. liii.
[194] _Cf._ Geoffrey's _Histories of the Kings of Britain_ (Everyman's Library), p. 202.
[198] Wood, E. J. _Giants and Dwarfs_, p. 54.
[200] _The Irish Mythological Cycle_, p. 116.
[201] Wood, E.J., _Giants and Dwarfs_, p. 5.
[203] Hone, W., _Ancient Mysteries_, p. 264.
[204] Wright, T., _Patrick's Purgatory_, p. 56.
[205] Courtney, Miss M. L., _Cornish Feasts and Folklore_, p. 28.
[206] Bartholomew, J. G., _A Survey Gazetteer of the British Islands_, I. 612.
[207] The duplication _cock_, as in _haycock_, also meant a hill.
[208] Quoted from Brand's _Antiquities_, p. 42.
[209] _Cf._ Urlin, Miss Ethel, _Festivals, Holydays, and Saint Days_, p. 2.
[211] Anwyl, E., _Celtic Religion_, p. 40.
[212] _Curious Myths of the Middle Ages_, pp. 637-40.
[213] "Morien" _Light of Britannia_, p. 262.
[214] The phallic symbolism of the serpent has been over-stressed so obtrusively by other writers, that it is unnecessary here to enlarge upon that aspect of the subject.
[215] Baldwin, J. D., _Prehistoric Nations_, p. 240.
[217] Windle, Sir B. C. A., _Remains of the Prehistoric Age in Britain_, p. 198.
[219] The ancient name "hoar rock," or white rock in the wood, may have referred to the white god probably once there worshipped, for actually there are no white rocks at St. Michael's, or anywhere else in Cornwall.
[220] _The Golden Legend_ records an apparition of St. Michael at a town named Tumba.
[221] Wood, E. J., _Giants and Dwarfs_, p. 91.
[222] _Cf._ Friend, Rev. Hilderic, _Flowers and Folklore_, II., p. 455.
[223] "Morien," _Light of Brittania_, p. 27.
[224] Anon, _A New Description of England and Wales_ (1724), p. 121.
[225] Dennis, G., _Cities and Centuries of Etruria_, p. 31.
[226] Munro, R., _Prehistoric Britain_, p. 223.
[228] Kains-Jackson, _Our Ancient Monuments_, p. 112. Fergusson states "about 330 feet".
[231] Gray, Mrs. Hamilton, _Sepulchres of Etruria_.
[234] Simpkins, J. E., _Fife_, p. 4; _County Folklore_, vol. vii.
[235] Simpkins, J. E., _Kinross-shire_, p. 377.
[237] _Curious Myths of the Middle Ages_, p. 336.
[238] I am unable to lay my hand on the reference for this Elen's Causeway in Westmoreland.
[239] Anon., _A New Description of England_, 1724, p. 318.