[392] View of the State of Ireland, p. 99.
[393] Moryson, Hist. of Ireland, ii. 367.
[394] Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme, 204.
[395] Camden, Britannia, iii. 455; iv. 459.
[396] The significance of the word "gossip" is worth noting. Halliwell says it "signified a relation or sponsor in baptism, all of whom were to each other and to the parents God-sibs, that is, sib, or related by means of religion." This meaning does not seem to have died out in the days of Spenser, and his use of the word to describe the relationship of the men of Ossory to wolves is very significant. For the history of this important word see Hearn's Aryan Household, 290.
[397] Otway, Sketches in Erris, 383-4.
[398] Folklore Record, iv. 98.
[399] Ulster Journ. Arch., ii. 161, 162. They have also another primitive trait. Their trade emblems are carved on their tombstones. Roy. Irish Acad., vii. 260.
[400] This I gather from Ulster Journ. Arch., ii. 164, where it is stated that the hare is unpropitious.
[401] Folklore Journal, ii. 259.