Note 127 — Chapter XXX · THE LIFE OF THE ASTRONOMER-PRIESTS

The Testimony of Tradition.

[128] History of Human Marriage, Chapter II.

[129] Celtic Folklore, ii., 654.

[130] Pomp. Mela, Lib. II. c. 2. I have already (p. 52) quoted Cæsar’s testimony to the same effect.

[131] “Disciplina in Britannia reperta, atque in Galliam translata esse existimatur.”—C. Bell. Gall. lib. vi. c. 13. This “discipline” also included magic according to Pliny. “Britannia hodie eam (i.e. Magiam) attonite celebrat tantis ceremoniis, ut eam Persis dedisse videri possit” (lib. xxx. c. 1.)

[132] Bertrand and Reinach, Les Celtes et les Gaulois dans les Vallées du Pô et du Danube, p. 82. Tregellis, “Stone Circles in Cornwall.” Trans. Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 1893-4.