[107] The Anthropological History of Europe (new edition, Paisley, 1912), p. 50.
[108] Cæsar (De Bello Gallico, VI, XIV, 4) says the Druids believed the soul passed from one individual to another.
[109] A Spaniard of the first century a.d.
[110] Book V. Chap. XXVIII.
[111] Pliny (Book XXX) says Britain seems to have taught Druidism to the Persians. Siret's view, given in the concluding part of this chapter, that Druidism was of Eastern origin, is of special interest in this connection.
[112] Celtic Religion, p. 62.
[113] Avalon, Emain Ablach, &c.
[114] The south was on the right and signified heaven, while the north was on the left and signified hell.
[115] Bacon wrote: "Mistletoe groweth chiefly upon crab trees, apple trees, sometimes upon hazels, and rarely upon oaks; the mistletoe whereof is counted very medicinal. It is evergreen in winter and summer, and beareth a white glistening berry; and it is a plant utterly differing from the plant on which it groweth."
[116] The Annals of Tacitus, XIV, 30. The theory that mediæval witches were the priestesses of a secret cult that perpetuated pre-Roman British religion is not supported by Gaelic evidence. The Gaelic "witches" had no meetings with the devil, and never rode on broomsticks. The Gaelic name for witchcraft is derived from English and is not old.