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breasted' from an expression in use among the Welsh and 

 Irish, descriptive of a woman who was twice married and who 

 had children by both husbands. At Ploufragan there is a 

 modern statue of her as a queen, but at Scaer is her holy well, 

 yielding an abundant outflow of crystal water, and there she is 

 called Candida. 



" What little that is reliable concerning her we know from the 

 life of her son S. Winwaloe, but legend has been busy with her 

 name and story, and Sebillot, in his collection of folk tales 

 collected in Brittany, tells some of the traditional stories con- 

 nected with her. According to them the connection with 

 England is still present, but she is fabled to have been carried 

 off by English pirates to London, but she escaped from the ship 

 with the loss of two fingers cut off by an axe by one of the 

 pirates according to another version, the loss of her left hand 

 and to have walked on the water back to Brittany. There the 

 track of foam left by the tide as it turns is still called ' the track 

 of S. Blanche.' 



II CtlEMIFI PC6MNTC SH.Kr.cm. 



" She must at one time have had a considerable cult in 

 Brittany, as not only are there churches dedicated to her where 

 she had her settlement of retainers, as at Plouguin and Ple*guen, 

 but there is also a parish of S. Gwen, and she is likewise 

 venerated at S. Cast, 



