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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Mont St. Michel

in Normandy, formerly called Belen. Here nine Druidesses sold to sailors the arrows to charm away storms. The arrows had to be discharged by a young man twenty-one years old.

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