noon
The Bible was full of giants ; and if no fairies were mentioned therein , she had read nothing aimed against them . Presently she prayed for the coming child . Her soul went with the words ; and they were addressed with vagueness as became her vague thoughts , half to Mên Scryfa , half to God , all in the name of Christ . Going home again , after noon , Joan found a glen-ader , -LSB- Footnote : _ Glen-ader _ -- The cast skin of an adder . Once accounted a powerful amulet , and still sometimes secretly preserved by the ignorant , as sailors treasure a caul . -RSB- which circumstance is here mentioned to illustrate the conflicting nature of those many forces still active in her mind . That they should have coexisted and not destroyed each other is the point of most peculiarity .