The Religion of the Ancient Celts

by J. A. MacCulloch

Footnote 645:[(return)]

Sébillot, ii. 284.

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Dalyell, 79-80; Sébillot, ii. 282, 374; see p. [266], infra.

Footnote 647:[(return)]

I have compiled this account of the ritual from notices of the modern usages in various works. See, e.g., Moore, Folk-Lore, v. 212; Mackinley, passim; Hope, Holy Wells; Rh[^y]s, CFL; Sébillot, 175 f.; Dixon, Gairloch, 150 f.

Footnote 648:[(return)]

Brand, ii. 68; Greg. In Glor. Conf. c. 2.

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Sébillot, ii. 293, 296; Folk-Lore, iv. 55.

Footnote 650:[(return)]

Mackinley, 194; Sébillot, ii. 296.

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Folk-Lore, iii. 67; Athenæum, 1893, 415; Pliny, Ep. viii. 8; Strabo, iv. 287; Diod. Sic. v. 9.

Footnote 652:[(return)]

Walker, Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. vol. v.; Sébillot, ii. 232. In some early Irish instances a worm swallowed with the waters by a woman causes pregnancy. See p. [352], infra.

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Sébillot, ii. 235-236.

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See Le Braz, i. 61; Folk-Lore, v. 214; Rh[^y]s, CFL i. 364; Dalyell, 506-507; Scott, Minstrelsy, Introd. xliii; Martin, 7; Sébillot, ii. 242 f.; RC ii. 486.