[142] _The Lost Language of Symbolism_, 1912. [143] The earliest example of Irish Bardism is to the following effect:-- I invoke thee Erin Brilliant Brilliant sea, Fertile Fertile Hill, Wavy Wavy Wood Flowing Flowing stream, Fishy Fishy Lake, etc. [144] Haslam, W., _Perran Zabuloe_, p. 8. [145] _Survey of London_, Ev. Lib., p. 132. [146] _Golden Legend_, III, 248. [147] Skeat postulates a mute vowel by deriving _lazar_ or leper from _Eleazer_--_He whom God assists_. [148] _Extinct Civilisations of the East_, p. 104. [149] I have a chapter of evidence in MSS. supporting this suggestion. [150] Frazer, Sir J. G., _Folklore in the Old Testament_, iii., 45. [151] Bulfinch put the horse before the cart when he wrote: "As the name of the god signifies _all_, Pan came to be considered a symbol of the universe and personification of nature." [152] Wavrin, John de, _Chronicles_. [153] This name is supposed to have meant a miser or father of pennies. The _penny_ is said to have been so named from the _pen_ or _head_ figured upon it. [154] Hone, W., _Everyday Book_, i., col. 566. [155] The _New English Dictionary_ notes the following "forms" of "pigeon," _pejon_, _pejoun_, _pegion_, _pegyon_, _pigin_, _pigen_, _pigion_, _pygon_. The supposed connection between pigeon and _pipio_, "I chirp," is surely remote, for young pigeons do not "chirp". [156] Mrs. Hamilton Gray in _The Sepulchres of Ancient Etruria_, writes: "I was particularly struck with one large carved group, which bore a greater resemblance to a Hindoo representation of a trinity than anything not Indian I have ever seen. Did we not know the thing to be impossible, I should be tempted on the strength of this sculptured stone to assert that Brahma, Siva, and Vishnu must at some former period have found adorers in Etruria. Three monstrous faces, growing together, one full face in the middle and a profile on each side" (p. 309). [157] The official etymology of _June_ is "probably from root of Latin _juvenis_, _junior_," but where is the sense in this? [158] Baring-Gould, S., _Curious Myths_, p. 5. [159] _Curious Myths_, p. 23. [160] Gray, Mrs. Hamilton, _Sepulchres of Ancient Etruria_, pp. 187, 189. [161] _Hell._, c. xx. [162] Yeats, W. B., _Fairy and Folk-tales of the Irish Peasantry_, p. 306. [163] "Theta," _The Thorn Tree, being a History of Thorn Worship_. London, 1863, p. 127. [164] _Faërie Queene_, Book XI., c. ix., st. 70-71. [165] Hone, W., _Everyday Book_, 111., col. 27. [166] Keightley, T., _Fairy Mythology_, p. 138. [167] Davies, E., _Myth of Brit. Druids_, pp. 203, 204.