Footnote 615:[(return)]
Sébillot, ii. 202 f.
Footnote 616:[(return)]
Ibid. 196-197; Martin, 140-141; Dalyell, 411.
Footnote 617:[(return)]
Rh[^y]s, CFL i. 366; Folk-Lore, viii. 281. If the fish appeared when an invalid drank of the well, this was a good omen. For the custom of burying sacred animals, see Herod, ii. 74; Ælian, xiii. 26.
Footnote 618:[(return)]
Gomme, Ethnol. in Folklore, 92.
Footnote 619:[(return)]
Trip. Life, 113; Tigernach, Annals, A.D. 1061.
Footnote 620:[(return)]
Mackinley, 184.
Footnote 621:[(return)]
Burne, Shropshire Folk-Lore, 416; Campbell, WHT ii. 145.
Footnote 622:[(return)]
Old Stat. Account, xii. 465.
Footnote 623:[(return)]
S. Patrick, when he cleared Ireland of serpents, dealt in this way with the worst specimens. S. Columba quelled a monster which terrified the dwellers by the Ness. Joyce, PN i. 197; Adamnan, Vita Columb. ii. 28; Kennedy, 12, 82, 246; RC iv. 172, 186.
Footnote 624:[(return)]
RC xii. 347.