The Religion of the Ancient Celts

by J. A. MacCulloch

Footnote 891:[(return)]

O'Donovan, li.; Bertrand, 105; Keating, 300.

Footnote 892:[(return)]

Samhain may mean "summer-end," from sam, "summer," and fuin, "sunset" or "end," but Dr. Stokes (US 293) makes samani- mean "assembly," i.e. the gathering of the people to keep the feast.

Footnote 893:[(return)]

Keating, 125, 300.

Footnote 894:[(return)]

See MacBain, CM ix. 328.

Footnote 895:[(return)]

Brand, i. 390; Ramsay, Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, ii. 437; Stat. Account, xi. 621.

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Hazlitt, 297-298, 340; Campbell, Witchcraft, 285 f.

Footnote 897:[(return)]

Curtin, 72.

Footnote 898:[(return)]

Fitzgerald, RC vi. 254.

Footnote 899:[(return)]

See Chambers, Mediæval Stage, App. N, for the evidence from canons and councils regarding these.

Footnote 900:[(return)]

Tille, Yule and Christmas, 96.