The Unpublished Legends of Virgil, by Charles Godfrey Leland 62335 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/6/2/3/3/62335 ] [Files: 62335-0.txt; 62335-h.htm] For those wishing to know: Charles Godfrey Leland was a great explorer of out of the way knowledge. In this book he gives a number of tales told to him by an Italian witch. As such they are folk-tales, often with some occult significance, that either survived in folk memory since the early times, or, Dante making Virgil "popular", had been created since. Leland points out: "they embody a vast amount of old Etrusco-Roman minor mythology of the kind chronicled by Ovid" and leaves it for the reader to decide. All the best, David England with blue skies returning but not that warm
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