The Religion of the Ancient Celts

by J. A. MacCulloch

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Diod. Sic. vi. 12; Paus. x. 22. 3; Amm. Marc. xxvii. 4; Livy, xxiii. 24; Solin. xxii. 3.

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This custom continued in Ireland until Spenser's time.

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Leahy, i. 158; Giraldus, Top. Hib. iii. 22; Martin, 109.

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Sil. Ital. iv. 213; Diod. Sic. xiv. 115; Livy, x. 26; Strabo, iv. 4. 5; Miss Hull, 92.

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Diod. Sic. v. 29; Strabo, iv. 4. 5.

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D'Arbois, v. 11; Diod. Sic. v. 29; Strabo, loc. cit.

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Annals of the Four Masters, 864; IT i. 205.

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Sil. Ital. iv. 215, v. 652; Lucan, Phar. i. 447; Livy, xxiii. 24.

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See p. [71], supra; CIL xii. 1077. A dim memory of head-taking survived in the seventeenth century in Eigg, where headless skeletons were found, of which the islanders said that an enemy had cut off their heads (Martin, 277).

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Belloguet, Ethnol. Gaul. iii. 100.