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 | | Long ago the inhabitants of the French coast of the English Channel believed that the souls of the dead were ferried across to Brrtain, and there are still traces of this belief in the folk-lore of Brittany (Tylor, Primitive Culture, ii. |
 | | The former, occupied by the lords of the manor before the building of Mount Edgcumbe House, was originally a castellated building, and the latter was built primarily as an alternative residence for a countess of Mount Edgcumbe. |
 | | After Homer this happy land, the abode of the good after death, was known as the Isles of the Blest (q.v.).i But in the oldest Greek mythology the house of Hades was simply the home of the dead, good and bad alike, who led a dim and shadowy reflection of life on earth. |
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