_St. Christopher and the Doree._--Brand, in his _Popular Antiquities_, vol.
iii. p. 194., says that the fish called the Doree is traditionally said to
have derived the spots on its sides frown the fact of St. Christopher, in
wading through the arm of the sea, having caught a fish of this description
_en passant_, and having left as an eternal memorial of the fact an
impression on its sides to be transmitted to all posterity.
Can any of your readers inform me from what source Brand derived this idea?