Note 137 — PART II (continued 2)

A similar miraculous provision by the agency of some animal occurs in the legends of several of the Irish hermits. In Wolfram’s Parzifal, the Grail appears as a ‘stone which yields all manner of food and drink, the power of which is sustained by a dove, who every week lays a Host upon it.’—Nutt, Studies, etc., p. 25.