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- ↑ John Brand; Sir Henry Ellis; James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1849). Observations on the popular antiquities of Great Britain: chiefly illustrating the origin of our vulgar and provincial customs, ceremonies, and superstitions. Bohn. p. 70.
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