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Excerpt from La Vierge d'Abduene, Traditions Gauloises: Ou Esquisse des Moeurs Et des Usages de la Nation Avant l'Ere Chretienne
Cependant la reconnaissance et l'amour ne s'eteignirent point dans le coeur du peuple celte partout il chercha a divi niser les objets de son affection. Les ro chers les torrens les fontaines les sources salutaires furent places sous l'invocation des vierges. Cette douce superstition par laquelle un peuple entier rendait un secret hommage aux femmes bienfizisantes aux meres-defiees subsiste encore de nos jours et le culte de la vierge - mere a suc cede a celui des vierges gauloises. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
