_Cagots_ (Vol. iv., pp. 190. 331. 387.).--THEOPHYLACT will find an
account of the _Cagots_ in the _Magasin Pittoresque_ for 1838, where
they are stated to be descended from the Goths, their name of _Cagots_
being derived from _caas Goth_ (_chien de Goth_), which corresponds with
the derivation given by Scaliger.
In Brittany they were known under the name of _Cacous_ and _Caqueux_: in
Guienne and Gascony under that of _Cahets_; in Navarre, _Caffos_; in the
mountains of Bearn, &c., as _Cagots_ or _Capots_.
The same work for 1840 contains an account of the _Cretins_; also
noticed by Kohl in his _Alpen-Reisen_ (reviewed in _Westminster Review_,
July, 1849).