Footnote 1222:[(return)]

Another method of accounting for this knowledge was to imagine a long-lived personage like Fintan who survived for 5000 years. D'Arbois, ii. ch. 4. Here there was no transformation or rebirth.

Footnote 1223:[(return)]

Nutt-Meyer, i. 24; ZCP ii. 316.

Footnote 1224:[(return)]

O'Curry, MS. Mat. 78.

Footnote 1225:[(return)]

Wood-Martin, Pagan Ireland, 140; Choice Notes, 61; Monnier, 143; Maury, 272.

Footnote 1226:[(return)]

Choice Notes, 69; Rees, 92; Le Braz2, ii. 82, 86, 307; Rev. des Trad. Pop. xii. 394.

Footnote 1227:[(return)]

Le Braz2, ii. 80; Folk-lore Jour. v. 189.

Footnote 1228:[(return)]

Folk-Lore, iv. 352.

Footnote 1229:[(return)]

Carmichael, Carm. Gadel. ii. 334; Rh[^y]s, CFL 602; Le Braz2, i. 179, 191, 200.

Footnote 1230:[(return)]

Mr. Nutt, Voyage of Bran, derived the origin of the rebirth conception from orgiastic cults.