[722] Reinach suggests that this may explain why Vercingetorix, in view of siege by the Romans, sent away his horses.  They were too sacred to be eaten.  Caesar, vii. 71; Reinach, RC xxvii. 1 f.

[723] Juvenal, viii. 154; Apul. Metam. iii. 27; Min.  Felix, Octav. xxvii. 7.

[724] For the inscriptions, see Holder, s.v. “Epona.”

[725] CIL iii. 7904.

[726] CIL xiii. 3071; Reinach, BF 253, CMR i. 64, Repert. de la Stat. ii. 745; Holder, ii. 651-652.

[727] Granger, Worship of the Romans, 113; Kennedy, 135.

[728] Grimm, Teut.  Myth. 49, 619, 657, 661-664.

[729] Frazer, Golden Bough{2}, ii. 281, 315.

[730] Caesar, v. 21, 27.  Possibly the Dea Bibracte of the Aeduans was a beaver goddess.

[731] O’Curry, MC ii. 207; Elton, 298.

[732] Girald.  Cambr. Top.  Hib. ii. 19, RC ii. 202; Folk-Lore, v. 310; IT iii. 376.

[733] O’Grady, ii. 286, 538; Campbell, The Fians, 78; Thiers, Traite des Superstitions, ii. 86.

[734] Lady Guest, ii. 409 f.

[735] Blanchet, i. 166, 295, 326, 390.

[736] See p. 209, supra.

[737] Diod.  Sic. v. 30; IT iii. 385; RC xxvi. 139; Rh[^y]s, HL 593.

[738] Man.  Hist.  Brit. p. x.

[739] Herodian, iii. 14, 8; Duald MacFirbis in Irish Nennius, p. vii; Caesar, v. 10; ZCP iii. 331.

[740] See Reinach, “Les Carnassiers androphages dans l’art gallo-romain,” CMR i. 279.

[741] See Holder, s.v.

[742] Rh[^y]s, CB{4} 267.

[743] Caesar, v. 12.

[744] Dio Cassius, lxii. 2.

[745] See a valuable paper by N.W.  Thomas, “Survivance du Culte des Animaux dans le Pays de Galles,” in Rev. de l’Hist. des Religions, xxxviii. 295 f., and a similar paper by Gomme, Arch.  Rev. 1889, 217 f.  Both writers seem to regard these cults as pre-Celtic.

[746] Gomme, Ethnol. in Folklore, 30, Village Community, 113.

[747] Dio Cass. lxxii. 21; Logan, Scottish Gael, ii. 12.

[748] Joyce, SH ii. 529; Martin, 71.

[749] RC xxii. 20, 24, 390-1.

[750] IT iii. 385.

[751] Waldron, Isle of Man, 49; Train, Account of the Isle of Man, ii. 124.

[752] Vallancey, Coll. de Reb.  Hib. iv.  No. 13; Clement, Fetes, 466.  For English customs, see Henderson, Folklore of the Northern Counties, 125.

[753] Frazer, Golden Bough{2}, ii. 380, 441, 446.

[754] For other Welsh instances of the danger of killing certain birds, see Thomas, op. cit. xxxviii. 306.

[755] Frazer, Kingship, 261; Stokes, RC xvi. 418; Larminie, Myths and Folk-tales, 327.