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The book's subtitle is Some Chapters in the History of Man. The text says that in Germany, after the interment of a living being under a foundation was abandoned, it was customary till comparatively recently to place an empty coffin under the foundations of a house. The text says the belief remained until quite late that weak foundations could be strengthened and be made to stand by burying a living being, generally human, under them.
The text says the mediæval priest allowed the old Pagan customs to continue unrebuked, and half believed in them himself. The text describes Grimspound on Dartmoor as a walled village whose pound contains four acres, with a stream ingeniously diverted from its course and brought within the enclosure. The text says Sir Edward Howard, Lord Admiral of England, and Lord Thomas Howard, son and heir to the Earl of Surrey, were sent in all haste to the sea.
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- S. Baring-Gould
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- 202
- Language
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