CHAPTER X.

OUR ANCESTORS.

Ancient Britain--The Druids--Wonderful resemblance--Worship of the Druids--Temple of the Hanging Stones--Human sacrifices--The destruction of Druidism--Who first brought Christianity to Britain--Paganism of the Saxons--Saxon gods--Saxon sacrifices--Fairy-lore of Western Europe--An Elfin Story--The penitent Nis--Nixes--The Peasant and the Waterman--The wonderful little pouch--Christianizing the Saxons, 185