Excerpt from The Heathens of the Heath: A Romance, Instructive, Absorbing, Thrilling These singular traditions taught also, 'that, long before Druidical worship was known in Britain, certain mission ary tribes from a remote land, - from India, from Egypt, or from Persia, -had erected huge stones around the very site of Pendell church, and its enclosed graveyard; and the space that was now nearly covered with mossy, crumb ling tombs, and with graves almost hidden in the long, rank grass, was, perhaps, once included in the sacred circle, within which religion was inculcated by strange, mysterious ceremonies, either in worship or the triad of Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, or of Osiris, Isis, and Horus, or by the Persian or the Parsee, while bowing before the efiulgent Sun in adoration of the great Ormuzd; and then in the course of time, when these and other deities had been superseded, Woden and Thor had here their votaries; and here, too, beneath the shadow of some ancient oak, once stood the Druidical altar, its white-robed priest and his devout attendants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.