The Santones, whose emblem was the Pig and Fleur-de-lis, were neighbours of the Pictones. Our British Picts, the first British tribe known by name to history, are generally supposed to have derived their title because they de_pict_ed pictures on their bodies. In West Cornwall there are rude stone huts known locally as Picts' Houses, but whether these are attributed to the Picts or the Pixies it is difficult to say. In Scotland the "Pechs" were obviously elves, for they are supposed to have been short, wee men with long arms, and such huge feet that on rainy days they stood upside down and used their feet as umbrellas. That the Picts' Houses of Cornwall were attributed to the Pechs is probable from the Scottish belief, "Oh, ay, they were great builders the Pechs; they built a' the auld castles in the country. They stood a' in a row from the quarry to the building stance, and elka ane handed forward the stanes to his neighbour till the hale was bigget." That the pig and the bogie were intimately associated is evidenced by a Welsh saying quoted by Sir John Rhys:-- A cutty black sow on every style Spinning and carding each November eve. In Ireland Pooka was essentially a November spirit, and elsewhere November was pre-eminently the time of All Hallows or All Angels. _Hallow_ is the same word as _elle_ the Scandinavian for _elf_ or _fairy_, and at Michaelmas or Hallowe'en, pixies, spooks, and bogies were notoriously all-abroad:-- On November eve A Bogie on every stile. The time of All Hallows, or Michaelmas used to be known as Hoketide, a festival which in England was more particularly held upon St. Blaze's Day; and at that cheerless period the people used to light bonfires or make blazes for the purpose of "lighting souls out of Purgatory". In Wales a huge fire was lighted by each household and into the ashes of this _bon_fire, this _alban_ or _elphin_ fire,[269] every member of the family threw a _white_ or "Alban," or an _elphin_ stone, kneeling in prayer around the dying fire.[270] In the Isle of Man Hallowtide was known as Hollantide,[271] which again permits the equation of St. Hellen or Elen and her train with Long Meg and her daughters. On the occasion of the Hallow or Ellie-time saffron or yellow cakes, said to be emblematical of the fires of purgatory, used to be eaten. To run _amok_ in the East means a _fiery fury_--the words are the same; and that _bake_ (or _beeak_ as in Yorkshire dialect) meant fire is obvious from the synonymous _cook_. _Coch_ is Welsh for red, and the flaming red poppy or corn_cock_le, French--_coquelicot_, was no doubt the symbol of the solar poppy, pope, or pap. The Irish for pap or breast is _cich_, and in Welsh _cycho_ means a hive, or anything of concave or hivelike shape. Possibly here we have the origin of _quick_ in its sense of living or alive.