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Mont St. Michel

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in Normandy, formerly called Belen. Here nine Druidesses sold to sailors the arrows to charm away storms. The arrows had to be discharged by a young man twenty-one years old.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Monroe Doctrine
Monsieur
Monsieur de Paris
Monsoon
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Monsters
Mont
Mont de Piété
Mont St. Michel
Montagnards [the mountain party]
Montague
Montanists
Montanto
Monteer Cap
Monteith
Montem
Montero-cap (A)
Montesinos (The Cave of)
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