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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—G

Goddess Mothers

(The). What the French call “bonnes dames ” or “ les dames blanches, ” the prototype of the fays; generally represented as nursing infants on their laps. Some of these statues made by the Gauls or Gallo-Romans are called “Black Virgins.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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