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out equal! When I think of such bliss to be, it consoles my heart for the pains of this life." FOOTNOTES: [61] _Religion of the Ancient Celts_, p. 289. GLOSSARY & INDEX A ABELARD. A Breton monk; the story of Heloise and, 248-253 ABERLADY BAY. A bay in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, 357 ABERNETHY. A town in Scotland; the Round Tower at, 52 ABERYSTWYTH. A town in Wales; Taliesin buried at, 22 ADDER'S STONE. A substance supposed to have magical properties, employed in Druidic rites, 247; Heloise, represented as a sorceress, said to have possessed, 252 ALAIN III. Count of Brittany (Count of Vannes); drives back the Northmen, 25 ALAIN IV (BARBE-TORTE). Arch-chief of Brittany; defeats the Northmen, 25-26 ALAIN V. Duke of Brittany, 27, 28 ALAIN FERGANT. Duke of Brittany, 30 ALAIN. Son of Eudo of Brittany, 29 ALBERT LE GRAND. Monk of Morlaix, 278 ALCHEMY. The art of; the position of, in the fifteenth century, 175; Gilles de Retz experiments in, 175-179 ALGONQUINS. A race of North American Indians; mentioned, 302 ALI BABA. The story of; mentioned, 316 ALL SOULS' DAY. The custom of leaving food for the dead on, 383 ALOIDA. A maiden; in the ballad of the Marriage-girdle, 234-236 'ALPINE' RACE. A European ethnological division; the Bretons probably belong to, 14, 37 _n._ AMENOPHIS III. An Egyptian king; mentioned, 43 AMERICA. _See_ United States ANGERS. A town in France; St Convoyon goes to, to obtain holy relics from the cathedral, 336 ANIMALS. Frequently the bearers of divine aid, in legends of the saints, 347; St Pol noted for his miraculous power over wild beasts, 366 ANIMISM, 86-87 ANKOU, THE. The death-spirit of Brittany, 101-102 ANNAIK. A maiden; in a story of the Marquis of Guerande, 199-202 ANNE. Duchess of Brittany; married to Charles VIII of France, and then to Louis XII, 36; the oratory of, in the chateau of Dinan, 209; gives the chateau of Suscino to John of Chalons, 210 ANTWERP. The city; relics of St Winwaloe preserved in the Jesuit church of St Charles at, 371; mentioned, 205 APPLE, THE. Said to have been introduced into Brittany by Telio, 18 ARDMORE. A town in Ireland; the Round Tower at, 51-52 AREZ, MOUNTAINS OF. Same as M
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