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IT i. 133.
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O'Donovan, Battle of Mag Rath, 50; D'Arbois, v. 67; IT i. 96. Dagda's cauldron came from Murias, probably an oversea world.
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Miss Hull, 244. Scath is here the Other-world, conceived, however, as a dismal abode.
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O'Curry, MC ii. 97, iii. 79; Keating, 284 f.; RC xv. 449.
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Skene, i. 264; cf. RC xxii. 14.
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P. [116], supra.
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Guest, iii. 321 f.
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For the use of a vessel in ritual as a symbol of deity, see Crooke, Folk-Lore, viii. 351 f.
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Diod. Sic. v. 28; Athen. iv. 34; Joyce, SH ii. 124; Antient Laws of Ireland, iv. 327. The cauldrons of Irish houses are said in the texts to be inexhaustible (cf. RC xxiii. 397).