Celtic Mythology: History of Celts, Religion, Archeological Finds, Legends & Myths. T. W. Rolleston

Bird-women pursued by Cúchulainn; D'Arbois, v. 178; for other instances see O'Curry, MS. Mat. 426; Miss Hull, 82.

1063. D'Arbois, v. 215.

1064. Joyce, OCR 279.

1065. Ibid. 86.

1066. RC xxiii. 394; Jocelyn, Vita S. Kent. c. 1.

1067. RC xv. 446.

1068. O'Conor, Rer. Hib. Scrip. ii. 142; Stokes, Lives of Saints, xxviii.

1069. RC xv. 444.

1070. See p. 251, supra.

1071. O'Curry, MS. Mat. 240.

1072. See pp. 248, 304, supra; Cæsar, vi. 14.

1073. Zimmer, Gloss. Hiber. 271. Other Irish incantations, appealing to the saints, are found in the Codex Regularum at Klosternenburg (RC ii. 112).

1074. Leahy, i. 137; Kennedy, 301.

1075. Sauvé, 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.

1076. For examples see O'Curry, MS. Met. 248; D'Arbois, ii. 190; RC xii. 71, xxiv. 279; Stokes, TIG xxxvi. f.

1077. Windisch, Táin, line 3467.

1078. Diod. Sic. v. 31.

1079. D'Arbois, i. 271.

1080. RC xii. 109; Nutt-Meyer, i. 2; D'Arbois, v. 445.

1081. Petrie, Ancient Music of Ireland, i. 73; The Gael, i. 235 (fairy lullaby of MacLeod of MacLeod).

1082. O'Curry, MS. Mat. 255.

1083. Archæologia, xxxix. 509; Proc. Soc. Ant. iii. 92; Gaidoz, Le Dieu Gaul. du Soleil, 60 f.

1084. IT iii. 409; but see Rh^ys, HL 215.

1085. Pliny, HN xxix. 3. 54.

1086. Rev. Arch. i. 227, xxxiii. 283.

1087. 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.

1088. Pliny, xxxii. 2. 24; Reinach, RC xx. 13 f.

1089. Rev. Arch. i. 227; Greenwell, British Barrows, 165; Elton, 66; Renel, 95f., 194f.

1090. Reinach, BF 286, 289, 362.

1091. O'Curry, MS Mat. 387. See a paper by Hartland, "The Voice of the Stone of Destiny," Folk-lore Journal, xiv. 1903.

1092. Petrie, Trans. Royal Irish Acad. xviii. pt. 2.

1093. O'Curry, MS. Mat. 393 f.

1094. Sébillot, i. 334 f.

1095. Trollope, Brittany, ii. 229; Bérenger-Féraud, Superstitions et Survivances, i. 529 f.; Borlase, Dolmens of Ireland, iii. 580, 689, 841 f.

1096. Rev. des Trad. 1894, 494; Bérenger-Féraud, i. 529, ii. 367; Elworthy, Evil Eye, 70.

1097. Bérenger-Féraud, i. 523; Elworthy, 69, 106; Reinach, L'Anthropologie, iv. 33.

1098. Kennedy, 324; Adamnan, Vita S. Col. ii. 35.

1099. Life of S. Fechin of Fore, RC xii. 333; Life of S. Kieran, O'Grady, ii. 13; Amra Cholumbchille, RC xx. 41; Life of S. Moling, RC xxvii. 293; and other lives passim. See also Plummer, Vitæ Sanctorum Hiberniæ.

1100. Adamnan, ii. 34. This pebble was long preserved, but mysteriously disappeared when the person who sought it was doomed to die.

1101. Wodrow, Analecta, passim; Walker, Six Saints of the Covenant, ed. by Dr. Hay Fleming.