The Religion of the Ancient Celts

by J. A. MacCulloch

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Strabo, vii. 2. 1; Lucan, Usener's ed., p. 32; IT iii. 210; Antient Laws of Ireland, i. 195 f.

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Curtin, HTI 249, 262.

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See Villemarqué, Contes Pop. des anciens Bretons, Paris, 1842; Rh[^y]s, AL; and especially Nutt, Legend of the Holy Grail, 1888.

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"Adventures of Nera," RC x. 226; RC xvi. 62, 64.

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P. [106], supra.

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P. [107], supra.

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For parallel myths see Rig-Veda, i. 53. 2; Campbell, Travels in South Africa, i. 306; Johnston, Uganda Protectorate, ii. 704; Ling Roth, Natives of Sarawak, i. 307; and cf. the myth of Prometheus.

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This is found in the stories of Bran, Maelduin, Connla, in Fian tales (O'Grady, ii. 228, 238), in the "Children of Tuirenn," and in Gaelic Märchen.

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Martin, 277; Sébillot, ii. 76.

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Burton, Thousand Nights and a Night, x. 239; Chamberlain, Aino Folk-Tales, 38; L'Anthropologie, v. 507; Maspero, Hist. anc. des peuples de l'Orient, i. 183. The lust of the women of these islands is fatal to their lovers.