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.