Through Brittany (Classic Reprint)1kg Limited, 22 mrt 2018 - 388 pagina's Excerpt from Through Brittany The cross now surmounts the menhir, and the statue of the Virgin is niched over the fountain of remote date, where once the Korrigan reigned supreme but the worship is still full of dark superstition, a strange mixture of Chris tianity and of the paganism of the weird days when the sacred vervain could work miracles and the mistletoe was the emblem of the priests. The old stories of human sacrifices seem, according to many writers, to have been libels on the Druids; but it is impossible to contemplate the monstrous misshapen blocks of stone, scattered over the length and breadth of the province of Brittany, without an intense conviction that these stones have witnessed fear ful rites, in which probably demons have been worshipped and called on to consecrate the tombs, if they are tombs, of departed chiefs honoured by these colossal memorials. After the prehistoric period and its remains, which seem to be involved in such a sea of dispute that it is useless to venture an opinion thereon, we come to traces of Roman and Gallic occupation. It is true these are far less fre quent than in Normandy; but still there are Roman roads and gallo-roman villas and tiles, while coins, &c., that have been unearthed are to be seen in the museums of the larger towns, besides the many interesting relics in private local collections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
