Gibraltar Quotes

“The Rock of Gibraltar, with its mysterious, waterfilled underground caverns, its great cave looking to the west, and its streaming Levanter cloud, was a natural phenomenon around which such legends were destined to spring.”
― Ernle Bradford, Gibraltar: The History of a Fortress

“J. A. Thomson in his Studies in the Odyssey commented that in those days ‘The limits of human and superhuman, material and immaterial were but dimly realised. There was something in common between gods and men and the beasts of the field and all growing things, and a pathway between the living and the dead… Every stream and oak and mountain was the habitation of a spiritual being whose nature was on the borderland between the human and the divine and partook of both. And so weak was the sense of identity, that with a touch of magic it was felt the barrier might be passed, and a man might become a wolf or a serpent or a hoopoe or a purple lily. He might renew his youth; he might be raised from the dead.”
― Ernle Bradford, Gibraltar: The History of a Fortress