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or the decoration of springs and fountains, yet very common in some counties, and especially in Derbyshire, and suggested that they owe their origin to the Roman Floralia, or to a still older custom, the common Aryan root of both. Crofton Croker speaks of the existence of
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in Ireland; Dr. O'Conner, in his
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Travels in Persia, notices its prevalence in the East; and Sir William Betham, in his
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Gael and Cymbri, says,
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The Celtæ were much addicted to the worship of fountains and rivers as divinities. He adds,
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They had a deity called Divona, or the river-god.