Brewer's: Mont St. Michel

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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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