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25. "Sacred": consecrated French sacré.

26. "a great dragon." This monster, traditionally called in the S. of France the "Tarasque," resembles others which have been created by the popular imagination in days when and in places where the wilder recesses of nature are hardly, if at all, explored. Such are the three different monsters who figure in the Old English poem Beowulf. These mythical beings seem sometimes simply personifications of the darkness and mystery of nature's un-