Footnote 580:[(return)]
Brand, s.v. "New Year's Day."
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Chambers, Popular Rhymes, 35; Sébillot, i. 46, 57 f.
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Polybius, v. 78; Vita S. Eligii, ii. 15.
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Osborne, Advice to his Son (1656), 79; RC xx. 419, 428.
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Aristotle, Nic. Eth. iii. 77; Eud. Eth. iii. 1. 25; Stobæus, vii. 40; Ælian, xii. 22; Jullian, 54; D'Arbois, vi. 218.
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Sébillot, i. 119. The custom of throwing something at a "fairy eddy," i.e. a dust storm, is well known on Celtic ground and elsewhere.
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Folk-Lore, iv. 488; Curtin, HTI 324; Campbell, The Fians, 158. Fian warriors attacked the sea when told it was laughing at them.
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Mélusine, ii. 200.
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Sébillot, ii. 170.
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Meyer, Cath. Finntraga, 40.