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Names of places associated with the great festivals are also those of the chief pagan cemeteries, Tara, Carman, Taillti, etc. (O'Curry, MC ii. 523).
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Rennes Dindsenchas, RC xv. 313-314.
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Cf. Frazer, Adonis, 134.
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Cf. Chambers, Mediæval Stage, i. 250, 253.
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See Vigfusson-Powell, Corpus Poet. Boreale, i. 405, 419. Perhaps for a similar reason a cult of the dead may have occurred at the Midsummer festival.
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Miss Faraday, Folk-Lore, xvii. 398 f.
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Bede, de Temp. Rat. c. xv.
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Vigfusson-Powell, i. 419.
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Curtin, Tales, 157; Haddon, Folk-Lore, iv. 359; Le Braz, ii. 115 et passim.
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Frazer, Adonis, 253 f.