[117] "Every weapon has its demon" is an old Gaelic saying.
[118] According to the Dingwall records knowledge of "future events in reference especialle to lyfe and death" was obtained by performing a ceremony in connection with the hollowed stone.
[119] L'Anthropologie, 1921. Tome XXX, pp. 235 et seq.
[120] "Comb of the honey and milk of the nut" (in Gaelic cir na meala 'is bainne nan cnò) was given as a tonic to weakly children, and is still remembered, the Rev. Kenneth MacLeod, Colonsay, informs me.
[121] Standish H. O'Grady, Silva Gadelica, p. 505.
[122] A Smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland, pp. 100-2 and 367-8.
[123] Macdonell and Keith, Vedic Index, under Soma and Madhu.
[124] Joyce, Irish Names of Places, Vol. I, pp. 507-9, Vol. II, pp. 206-7 and 345· Marsh mallows (leamh) appear to have been included among the herbals of the milk-cult as the soma-plant was in India.
[125] Revue Celtique, Vol. XIII, p. 75.
[126] Warren, Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church, p. 67.