it readily explains why the flesh of the goose was tapu to the Brythous of Caesar's time: leporem et gallinam et anserem gustare fas non putant. Nor is it irrelevant to add, that the goose was sacred in ancient Rome to Jupiter's consort Juno.
and printed since in the American newspaper called the Drych: 'It was an evil omen,' he says, 'to see geese on a lake at night; those likewise must be witches, and especially in case the time was the first Thursday night of the lunar month.' My wife has also a distinct recollection of the same belief prevailing in Arvon when she was a child, and of the importance attached to the first Thursday night (of the moon). This is all the more deserving of mention, perhaps, as Thursday is in Welsh 'Dyᵭ Iau,' that is to say Jeudi, or Jove's Day.
