The circle of the Sun or solar wheel, otherwise the wheel of Good _law_, is found frequently engraved on prehistoric stones and coins. In Gaul, statues of a divinity bearing a wheel upon his shoulder have been found, and solar wheels figure persistently in Celtic archæology. It has been supposed, says Dr. Holmes, that they are symbolical of Sun worship, and that the God with the wheel was the God of the Sun. It is further probable that the wheel on the shoulder corresponded to the child on the shoulder of St. Kit, and I am at a loss to understand how any thinker can have ever propounded such a proposition as to require Dr. Holmes' comment, "the supposition that the wheels were money is no longer admitted by competent antiquaries".[174] Sir James Frazer instances cases of how the so-called "Fire of Heaven" used sometimes to be made by igniting a cart wheel smeared with pitch, fastened on a pole 12 feet high, the top of the pole being inserted in the nave of the wheel. This fire was made on the summit of a mountain, and as the flame ascended the people uttered a set form of words with eyes and arms directed heavenwards. In Norway to this day men turn cart wheels round the bonfires of St. John, and doubtless at some time the London urchin--still a notorious adept at cart-wheeling--once exercised the same pious orgy. On Midsummer Eve, when the bonfires were lighted on every hill in honour of St. John, the Elves were at their very liveliest. _Eléve_ in French means up _aloft_, and _eléve_ means frequently transported with excitement. Shakespeare refers to elves as ouphes, which is the same word as _oaf_ and was formerly spelt aulf. Near Wye in Kent there is a sign-post pointing to Aluph, but this little village figures on the Ordnance map as Aulph. The ouphes of Shakespeare are equipped "with rounds of waxen tapers on their heads," and with Jack o' lanthorn may be connoted Hob-and-his-lanthorn. In Worcestershire Hob has his fuller title, and is alternatively known as Hobredy:[175] with the further form Hobany may be correlated Eubonia, and with Hobredy, St. Bride, the _Bona dea_ of the Hebrides. It is probable that "Hobany" is responsible for the curious Kentish place name Ebony, and that the Wandering Dame Abonde, Habonde, or Abundia of French faërie, was Hobany's consort. The worship of La Dame Abonde, the star-crowned Queen of Fées, is particularly associated with St. John's Day, and there is little doubt that in certain aspects she was _cann_, or the full moon:-- The moon, full-orbed, into the well looks down, Her face is mirrored in the waters clear, And fées are gathering in the beech shade brown, From missions far and near. And there erect and tall, Abonde the Queen, Brow-girt with golden circlet, that doth bear A small bright scintillating star between Her braids of dusky hair.[176]