[247] _Cf._ Windle, Sir B.C.A., _Remains of the Prehistoric Age_, pp. 197-8. [248] Salmon, A.L., _Cornwall_, p. 88. [249] Wilson, J.M., _The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales_, i., p. 484. [250] Anwyl, E., _Celtic Religion_, p. 39. [251] "L.V.," London (undated). [252] I do not think this proverbially loving couple were exclusively Scotch. The _darbies_, _i.e._, handcuffs or clutches of the law may be connoted with Gascoigne's line (1576): "To bind such babes in _father Darbie's_ bands". "_Old Joan_" figures as one of the characters in the festivities of Plough Monday, and in Cornwall any very ancient woman was denominated "_Aunt Jenny_". [253] Gray, Mrs. Hamilton, _Sepulchres of Ancient Etruria_, p. 131. [254] _The Mythology of the British Islands_, p. 125. CHAPTER VI. PUCK. "Do you imagine that Robin Goodfellow--a mere name to you--conveys anything like the meaning to your mind that it did to those for whom the name represented a still living belief, and who had the stories about him at their fingers' ends? Or let me ask you, Why did the fairies dance on moonlight nights? or, Have you ever thought why it is that in English literature, and in English literature alone, the fairy realm finds a place in the highest works of imagination?" --F. S. HARTLAND.