Note 14 — VOL. XXVI., No. 151.—OCTOBER, 1877. (continued 5)

These priestesses were in the habit of selling to the seafaring men who came to consult them arrows of pretended virtue in calming tempests, if thrown into the sea, during a storm, by one of the youngest sailors on board. In the ancient Druidic poem called Ar Rannou, or The Series, where the Child says, “Sing me the number Nine,” the Druid answers, “... Nine Korrigan with flowers in their hair, robed in white wool, dancing around the fountain in the light of the full moon.” (See De Villemarqué, Barzaz Breiz, p. 6.) Pomponius Mela designates as Garrigena (evidently Korrigan Latinized) the “nine priestesses or sorceresses of the Armorican Isle of Sein.”