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A BOOK OF FOLK-LORE
BY
SABINE BARING-GOULD
1913
A Book Of Folk-Lore By Sabine Baring-Gould.
This edition was created and published by Global Grey
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C
ONTENTS
Preliminary
The Spirit Of Man
The Body Of Man
The Ancient Divinities
Sacrifice
The Mystery Of Death
Fetches
Skulls
Pixies And Brownies
Birth And Marriage
1
P
RELIMINARY
In the early days of exploration of prehistoric relics little care was
bestowed on discriminating the several layers of deposit through which
the spade cut, and what was found was thrown up into a common heap,
and little account was taken as to the depths at which the several
deposits lay.
I had the chance in 1892 of visiting La Laugerie Basse on the Vézère in
company with Dr Massénat and M. Philibert Lalande, who conducted the
exploration after MM. Christy and Lartet had abandoned the field. They
had to carry on the work with very limited means, but they arrived,
nevertheless, at conclusions which had escaped the earlier explorers.
Dr Massénat had driven a shaft down beside the bed of the peasant who
lived under the rock, and who, when I saw him, was bedridden. His
children, pretty brown-eyed boys and girls, bare-footed and bare-legged,
were there, and I gave them some sous. As the dwelling was under the
rock and the floor was earth, the refuse of the meals of the family went to
raise the deposit along with particles of chalk falling from above. One of
my sous, bearing the effigy of Napoleon III, fell, and in the scuffle that
ensued disappeared under the soil. By the sick man's bed, as already
stated, was a shaft driven down to the virgin soil, and this passed
through a layer very modern, in which to this day my sou lies, then
through fragments of Medieval crockery, next Merovingian relics, then
Roman scraps of iron and coins, below that remains of the Bronze Age,
below that again those of the Polished Stone Period. Then ensued a gap--
a tract of sterile soil; and then all at once began a rich bed of deposits--
this time distinct from the rest in that they pertained to a people who
were contemporary with the mammoth, the cave--bear, and the reindeer
in France. Finally in this lay the skeleton of a man whose thigh had been
crushed by a fallen mass of stone from the rock that arched over it, and
who had been clothed in skins ornamented with shells from the Atlantic
coast.
From this it may be seen how important it is to differentiate the strata at
which lie the remains of ancient man.

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