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[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-G.o.ddess, 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_ x.x.xiii.

[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.

[255] O'Donovan, _Grammar_, Dublin, 1845, xlvii.

[256] _RC_ xii. 77.

[257] Lucian, _Herakles_.

[258] _RC_ xii. 89. The name is found in Gaulish Gobannicnos, and in Welsh Abergavenny.

[259] _IT_ i. 56; Zimmer, _Glossae Hibernicae_, 1881, 270.

[260] _Atlantis_, 1860, iii. 389.

[261] _RC_ xii. 89.

[262] _LL_ ll_a_.

[263] _RC_ xii. 93.

[264] Connac, 56, and _Coir Anmann_ (_IT_ iii. 357) divide the name as _dia-na-cecht_ and explain it as "G.o.d of the powers."

[265] _RC_ xii. 67. For similar stories of plants springing from graves, see my _Childhood of Fiction_, 115.

[266] _RC_ xii, 89, 95.

[267] _RC_ vi. 369; Cormac, 23.

[268] Cormac, 47, 144; _IT_ iii. 355, 357.

[269] _IT_ iii. 355; D'Arbois, i. 202.

[270] _LL_ 246_a_.

[271] _Irish MSS. Series_, i. 46; D'Arbois, ii. 276. In a MS. edited by Dr. Stirn, Oengus was Dagda's son by Elemar's wife, the amour taking place in her husband's absence. This incident is a parallel to the birth-stories of Mongan and Arthur, and has also the Fatherless Child theme, since Oengus goes in tears to Mider because he has been taunted with having no father or mother. In the same MS. it is the Dagda who instructs Oengus how to obtain Elemar's _sid_. See _RC_ xxvii. 332, xxviii. 330.

[272] _LL_ 245_b_.

[273] _IT_ iii. 355.

[274] O'Donovan, _Battle of Mag-Rath_, Dublin, 1842, 50; _LL_ 246_a_.