[218] LL 10_b_.

[219] Cormac, 4.  Stokes (US 12) derives Anu from (p)an, “to nourish”; cf.  Lat. panis.

[220] Leicester County Folk-lore, 4.  The Coir Anmann says that Anu was worshipped as a goddess of plenty (IT iii. 289).

[221] Rh[^y]s, Trans. 3rd Inter.  Cong.  Hist. of Rel. ii. 213.  See Grimm, Teut.  Myth. 251 ff., and p. 275, infra.

[222] Rh[^y]s, ibid. ii. 213.  He finds her name in the place-name Bononia and its derivatives.

[223] Cormac, 23.

[224] Caesar, vi. 17; Holder, s.v.; Stokes, TIG 33.

[225] Girald.  Cambr. Top.  Hib. ii. 34 f.  Vengeance followed upon rash intrusion.  For the breath tabu see Frazer, Early Hist. of the Kingship, 224.

[226] Joyce, SH i. 335.

[227] P. 41, supra.

[228] Martin, 119; Campbell, Witchcraft, 248.

[229] Frazer, op. cit. 225.

[230] Joyce, PN i. 195; O’Grady, ii. 198; Wood-Martin, i. 366; see p. 42, supra.

[231] Fitzgerald, RC iv. 190.  Aine has no connection with Anu, nor is she a moon-goddess, as is sometimes supposed.

[232] RC iv. 189.

[233] Keating, 318; IT iii. 305; RC xiii. 435.

[234] O’Grady, ii. 197.

[235] RC xii. 109, xxii. 295; Cormac, 87; Stokes, TIG xxxiii.

[236] Holder, i. 341; CIL vii. 1292; Caesar, ii. 23.

[237] LL 11_b_; Cormac, s.v. Neit; RC iv. 36; Arch.  Rev. i. 231; Holder, ii. 714, 738.

[238] Stokes, TIG, LL 11_a_.

[239] Rh[^y]s, HL 43; Stokes, RC xii. 128.

[240] RC xii. 91, 110.

[241] See p. 131.

[242] Petrie, Tara, 147; Stokes, US 175; Meyer, Cath Finntraga, Oxford, 1885, 76 f.; RC xvi. 56, 163, xxi. 396.

[243] CIL vii. 507; Stokes, US 211.

[244] RC i. 41, xii. 84.

[245] RC xxi. 157, 315; Miss Hull, 247.  A baobh (a common Gaelic name for “witch”) appears to Oscar and prophesies his death in a Fionn ballad (Campbell, The Fians, 33).  In Brittany the “night-washers,” once water-fairies, are now regarded as revenants (Le Braz, i. 52).

[246] Joyce, SH i. 261; Miss Hull, 186; Meyer, Cath Finntraga, 6, 13; IT i. 131, 871.

[247] LL 10_a_.

[248] LL 10_a_, 30_b_, 187_c_.

[249] RC xxvi. 13; LL 187_c_.

[250] Cf. the personification of the three strains of Dagda’s harp (Leahy, ii. 205).

[251] See p. 223, infra.

[252] D’Arbois, ii. 372.

[253] RC xii. 77, 83.

[254] LL 11; Atlantis, London, 1858-70, iv. 159.