In some parts of Europe the civic giants were represented as being _eight_ in number, and the Christian Clergy inherited with their office the incongruous duty of keeping them in good order. One of these ceremonials is described by an eye-witness writing in 1809, who tells us that in Valencia no procession of however little importance took place, without being preceded by eight statues of giants of a prodigious height. "Four of them represented the four quarters of the world, and the other four their husbands. Their heads were made of paste-board, and of an enormous size, frizzled and dressed in the fashion. Men, covered with drapery falling on the ground, carried them at the head of the procession, making them dance, jump, bow, turn, and twist about. The people paid more attention to these gesticulations than to the religious ceremony which followed them. The existence of the giants was deemed of sufficient importance to require attention as to the means of perpetuating them; consequently there was a considerable foundation in Valencia for their support. They had a house belonging to them where they were deposited. Two benefices were particularly founded in honour of them; and it was the duty of the Ecclesiastics who possessed these benefices to take care of them and of their ornaments, particular revenues being assigned for the expense of their toilettes."[198] Four pairs of elemental gods were similarly worshipped in Egypt, each pair male and female, and these _eight_ primeval Beings were known as the Ogdoad or Octet. In Scotland, the Earth Goddess who is said to have existed "from the long eternity of the world," is sometimes described as being the chief of _eight_ "big old women," at other times as "a great big old wife," and with this untoward Hag we may equate the English "Awd Goggie" who was supposed to guard orchards. The London figures of Gog and Magog--constructed of wicker work--had movable eyes which, to the great joy of the populace, were caused to roll or _goggle_ as the images were perambulated. Skeat thinks the word _gog_ is "of imitative origin," but it is more likely that _goggle_ was originally Gog _oeuil_ or Gog Eye. The Irish and Gaelic for Goggle-eyed is _gogshuileach_, which the authorities refer to _gog_, "to move slightly" and _suil_, "an eye". At Gigglewick or Giggles-fort in Yorkshire (anciently _Deira_), there is a celebrated well of which the famed peculiarity is its eightfold flow, and it was of this Giggle Well that Drayton wrote in _Polyolbion_:-- At Giggleswick where I a fountain can you show, That _eight_ times a day is said to ebb and flow.