The Religion of the Ancient Celts eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 445 pages of information about The Religion of the Ancient Celts.

The Religion of the Ancient Celts eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 445 pages of information about The Religion of the Ancient Celts.

[1117] Ibid. 86.

[1118] RC xxiii. 394; Jocelyn, Vita S. Kent. c. 1.

[1119] RC xv. 446.

[1120] O’Conor, Rer.  Hib.  Scrip. ii. 142; Stokes, Lives of Saints, xxviii.

[1121] RC xv. 444.

[1122] See p. 251, supra.

[1123] O’Curry, MS. Mat. 240.

[1124] See pp. 248, 304, supra; Caesar, vi. 14.

[1125] Zimmer, Gloss.  Hiber. 271.  Other Irish incantations, appealing to the saints, are found in the Codex Regularum at Klosternenburg (RC ii. 112).

[1126] Leahy, i. 137; Kennedy, 301.

[1127] Sauve, RC vi. 67 f.; Carmichael, Carm.  Gadel., passim; CM xii. 38; Joyce, SH i. 629 f.; Camden, Britannia, iv. 488; Scot, Discovery of Witchcraft, iii. 15.

[1128] For examples see O’Curry, MS. Met. 248; D’Arbois, ii. 190; RC xii. 71, xxiv. 279; Stokes, TIG xxxvi. f.

[1129] Windisch, Tain, line 3467.

[1130] Diod.  Sic. v. 31.

[1131] D’Arbois, i. 271.

[1132] RC xii. 109; Nutt-Meyer, i. 2; D’Arbois, v. 445.

[1133] Petrie, Ancient Music of Ireland, i. 73; The Gael, i. 235 (fairy lullaby of MacLeod of MacLeod).

[1134] O’Curry, MS. Mat. 255.

[1135] Archaeologia, xxxix. 509; Proc.  Soc.  Ant. iii. 92; Gaidoz, Le Dieu Gaul. du Soleil, 60 f.

[1136] IT iii. 409; but see Rh[^y]s, HL 215.

[1137] Pliny, HN xxix. 3. 54.

[1138] Rev. Arch. i. 227, xxxiii. 283.

[1139] Hoare, Modern Wiltshire, 56; Camden, Britannia, 815; Hazlitt, 194; Campbell, Witchcraft, 84.  In the Highlands spindle-whorls are thought to have been perforated by the adder, which then passes through the hole to rid itself of its old skin.

[1140] Pliny, xxxii. 2. 24; Reinach, RC xx. 13 f.

[1141] Rev. Arch. i. 227; Greenwell, British Barrows, 165; Elton, 66; Renel, 95f., 194f.

[1142] Reinach, BF 286, 289, 362.

[1143] O’Curry, MS Mat. 387.  See a paper by Hartland, “The Voice of the Stone of Destiny,” Folk-lore Journal, xiv. 1903.

[1144] Petrie, Trans.  Royal Irish Acad. xviii. pt. 2.

[1145] O’Curry, MS. Mat. 393 f.

[1146] Sebillot, i. 334 f.

[1147] Trollope, Brittany, ii. 229; Berenger-Feraud, Superstitions et Survivances, i. 529 f.; Borlase, Dolmens of Ireland, iii. 580, 689, 841 f.

[1148] Rev. des Trad. 1894, 494; Berenger-Feraud, i. 529, ii. 367; Elworthy, Evil Eye, 70.

[1149] Berenger-Feraud, i. 523; Elworthy, 69, 106; Reinach, L’Anthropologie, iv. 33.

[1150] Kennedy, 324; Adamnan, Vita S. Col. ii. 35.

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