feet, and the centre one contains a small chamber, in which was found, about fifty years since, an urn full of ashes.--Gray, Mrs. Hamilton, _Sepulchres of Etruria_, p. 450. [263] Taylor, R., _Te Ika A Maui_, or _New Zealand and its Inhabitants_, p. 352. [264] _Cf._ Stow, _London_. [265] Evans, Sir Arthur, quoted in _Crete of Pre-hellenic Europe_, p. 32. [266] Bonwick _Irish Druids and Old Irish Religion_, p. 230. [267] Anwyl, E. [268] It is not unlikely that the Goss and Cass families of to-day are the descendants of the British tribe referred to by the Romans as the Cassi. [269] The Welsh for alban or alpin is elphin. [270] Urlin, Miss Ethel M., _Festivals, Holy Days, and Saints' Days_, p. 192. [271] _Ibid._, p. 196. [272] _Cf._ Hone, W., _Everyday Book_, vol. i., col. 1340. [273] _Cf._ Hone, W., _Everyday Book_, vol. i., col. 1340. [274] xli. 19. [275] _Faiths and Folklore_, i., 332. [276] _Celtic Britain_, p. 211. Sir John frequently changed his mind. [277] _Barddas_, p. 416. [278] The Phrygian Cap was symbolic. [279] _Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe_, p. xxxii. [280] _Mykenæ_, p. 179. [281] _Rude Stone Monuments_, p. 207. [282] Baldwin, J. G., _Prehistoric Nations_, p. 162. [283] Keightley, _Fairy Mythology_, p. 317. [284] Hazlitt, W. Carew, _Faiths and Folklore_, ii., 608. [285] Rhys, Sir J., _Celtic Britain_, p. 271. [286] The Celtic Angus is translated _excellent virtue_. [287] _Cf._ Baring-Gould, Rev. S., _Curious Myths_, pp. 266-316. [288] _Orphic Hymn_, lv., 5, 10, and 11. [289] Courtney, Miss M. L., _Cornish Feasts and Folklore_, p. 136. [290] From prehistoric times this ensign seems to have been known as "the Jack," and the immutability of the fabulous element was evidenced anew during the present year when on 23rd April the Admiral on shore wirelessed to the Zeebrugge raiding force: "England and St. George". To this was returned the reply: "We'll give a twist to the dragon's tail". [291] Since writing I find this surmise to be well founded. At the present moment there is a Persian cannon (A.D. 1547) captured at Bagdad, now on exhibition in London. It bears an inscription to the effect:-- "'Succour is from God, and victory is at hand.' The Commander of Victory and Help, the Shah, Desiring to blot out all trace of the Turks, Ordered Dglev to make this gun. Wherever it goes it burns up lives, It spits forth flames like a dragon. It sets the world of the Turks on fire." [292] Wise, T. A., _History of Paganism in Caledonia_, p. 114. [293] _Irish Mytho. Cycle_, p. 229. [294] The Norwegian for _neigh_ is _kn_eggya, the Danish, _gn_egge.