Footnote 241:[(return)]

See p. [131].

Footnote 242:[(return)]

Petrie, Tara, 147; Stokes, US 175; Meyer, Cath Finntrága, Oxford, 1885, 76 f.; RC xvi. 56, 163, xxi. 396.

Footnote 243:[(return)]

CIL vii. 507; Stokes, US 211.

Footnote 244:[(return)]

RC i. 41, xii. 84.

Footnote 245:[(return)]

RC xxi. 157, 315; Miss Hull, 247. A baobh (a common Gaelic name for "witch") appears to Oscar and prophesies his death in a Fionn ballad (Campbell, The Fians, 33). In Brittany the "night-washers," once water-fairies, are now regarded as revenants (Le Braz, i. 52).

Footnote 246:[(return)]

Joyce, SH i. 261; Miss Hull, 186; Meyer, Cath Finntraga, 6, 13; IT i. 131, 871.

Footnote 247:[(return)]

LL 10a.

Footnote 248:[(return)]

LL 10a, 30b, 187c.

Footnote 249:[(return)]

RC xxvi. 13; LL 187c.

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Cf. the personification of the three strains of Dagda's harp (Leahy, ii. 205).