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==Excerpt: ''From Ritual to Romance'' Chapter 13--"The Perilous Chapel"==

"Students of the Grail romances will remember that in many of the versions the hero--sometimes it is a heroine--meets with a strange and terrifying adventure in a mysterious Chapel, an adventure which, we are given to understand, is fraught with extreme peril to life.  The details vary: sometimes there is a Dead Body laid on the altar; sometimes a Black Hand extinguishes the tapers; there are strange and threatening voices, and the general impression is that this is an adventure in which supernatural, and evil, forces are engaged."


==Excerpt: ''From Ritual to Romance'' Chapter 9--"The Fisher King"==

"We have already seen that the personality of the King, the nature of the disability under which he is suffering, and the reflex effect exercised upon his folk and his land, correspond, in a most striking manner, to the intimate relation at one time held to exist between the ruler and his land; a relation mainly dependent upon the identification of the King with the Divine principle of Life and Fertility..." 

Fish: "important part in Mystery Cults, as being the 'holy' food" because of "the belief... that all life comes from the water."




Courtesy of Project Gutenberg.

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