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The religious interdictions mentioned by Cæsar (vi. 13) may be regarded as tabus, while the spoils of war placed in a consecrated place (vi. 18), and certain animals among the Britons (v. 12), were clearly under tabu.

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Joyce, OCR 332 f.

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Book of Rights, ed. O'Donovan, 5.

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Book of Rights, 7.

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Ibid. 3 f.

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LL 107; O'Grady, ii. 175.

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In Highland tales geasa is translated "spells."

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RC xxii. 27 f. The story of Da Choca's Hostel has for its subject the destruction of Cormac through breaking his geasa (RC xxi. 149 f.).