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See, however, accounts of reckless child sacrifices in Ellis, Polynesian Researches, i. 252, and Westermarck, Moral Ideas, i. 397.
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O'Curry, MC Intro, dcxli.
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LU 126a. A folk-version is given by Larminie, West Irish Folk-Tales, 139.
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Book of Fermoy, 89a.
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O'Curry, MC Intro. dcxl, ii. 222.
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Adamnan, Vita S. Col. Reeve's ed. 288.
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Carmichael, Carmina Gadelica, ii. 317.
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Nennius, Hist. Brit. 40.
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Stokes, TIG xli.; O'Curry, MC ii. 9.
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Pliny, HN xxx. 1. The feeding of Ethni, daughter of Crimthann, on human flesh that she might sooner attain maturity may be an instance of "medicinal cannibalism" (IT iii. 363). The eating of parents among the Irish, described by Strabo (iv. 5), was an example of "honorific cannibalism." See my article "Cannibalism" in Hastings' Encycl. of Rel. and Ethics, iii, 194.