Note 185 — Chapter II · PRIESTLY KINGS
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Pliny, Nat. Hist. ii. 101; Diodorus Siculus, iv. 43; Seneca, Natur. Quaest. i. 1. 13; Lucian, Dial. deorum, xxvi. 2; Ovid, Fasti, v. 720; Plutarch, De defect. oraculorum, 30; Lactantius Placidus, Comment. in Statii Theb. viii. 792; Th. Henri Martin, in Revue Archéologique, N.S. xiii. (1866) pp. 168–174; P. Sébillot, Légendes, Croyances et Superstitions de la Mer (Paris, 1886), ii. 87–109. Seafaring men in different parts of the world still see and draw omens from these weird lights on the masts. See Edward FitzGerald, quoted in County Folk-lore, Suffolk (London, 1893), pp. 121 sq.; W. W. Skeat, Malay Magic (London, 1900), p. 279.