Footnote 831:[(return)]
Sil. Ital. xiii. 482; Livy, xxiii. 24; Florus, i. 39.
Footnote 832:[(return)]
ZCP i. 106.
Footnote 833:[(return)]
Loth, i. 90 f., ii. 218-219. Sometimes the weapons of a great warrior had the same effect. The bows of Gwerthevyr were hidden in different parts of Prydein and preserved the land from Saxon invasion, until Gwrtheyrn, for love of a woman, dug them up (Loth, ii. 218-219).
Footnote 834:[(return)]
See p. [338], infra. In Ireland, the brain of an enemy was taken from the head, mixed with lime, and made into a ball. This was allowed to harden, and was then placed in the tribal armoury as a trophy.
Footnote 835:[(return)]
L'Anthropologie, xii. 206, 711. Cf. the English tradition of the "Holy Mawle," said to have been used for the same purpose. Thorns, Anecdotes and Traditions, 84.
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Arrian, Cyneg. xxxiii.
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Cæsar, vi. 17; Orosius, v. 16. 6.
Footnote 838:[(return)]
D'Arbois, i. 155.
Footnote 839:[(return)]
Curtin, Tales of the Fairies, 72; Folk-Lore, vii. 178-179.
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Mitchell, Past in the Present, 275.