The Religion of the Ancient Celts

by J. A. MacCulloch

Footnote 921:[(return)]

Pennant, Tour in Scotland, i. 291.

Footnote 922:[(return)]

Hazlitt, 339, 397.

Footnote 923:[(return)]

Hone, Everyday Book, ii. 595. See p. [215], supra.

Footnote 924:[(return)]

Sinclair, Stat. Account, xi. 620.

Footnote 925:[(return)]

Martin, 105.

Footnote 926:[(return)]

For these usages see Ramsay, Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, ii. 439 f.; Sinclair, Stat. Account, v. 84, xi. 620, xv. 517. For the sacramental and sacrificial use of similar loaves, see Frazer, Golden Bough², i. 94, ii. 78; Grimm, Teut. Myth. iii. 1239 f.

Footnote 927:[(return)]

New Stat. Account, Wigtownshire, 208; Hazlitt, 38, 323, 340.

Footnote 928:[(return)]

See Miss Owen, Folk-lore of the Musquakie Indians, 50; Frazer, Golden Bough², ii. 205.

Footnote 929:[(return)]

For notices of Beltane survivals see Keating, 300; Campbell, Journey from Edinburgh, i. 143; Ramsay, Scotland and Scotsmen, ii. 439 f.; Old Stat. Account, v. 84, xi. 620, xv. 517; Gregor, Folk-lore of N.E. of Scotland, 167. The paganism of the survivals is seen in the fact that Beltane fires were frequently prohibited by Scottish ecclesiastical councils.

Footnote 930:[(return)]

Meyrac, Traditions ... des Ardennes, 68.