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Broceliande

A magic forest in Brittany, which figures in the Arthurian legend. It was in this place that Merlin was enchanted by Nimue or Viviana, Lady of the Lake, and imprisoned beneath a huge stone. The name Broceliande is often employed as symbolic of the dim unreality of legendary scenery. Brohou, Jean: A physician of Coutarces, in the seventeenth century. He was the author of an Almanack or Journal of Astrology, with prognostications for the year 1572, Buer (Rouen, 1571), and a Description d'une Merveilleuse et Prodiigeuse Comète, with a treatise on comets, and the events they prognosticate (Paris, 1568).

Broichan, or Druid : (See Celts.)

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