The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries

by W. Y. Evans-Wentz

[244] Campbell, The Fians, pp. 79-80. In Silva Gadelica, ii. 522, it is stated that the mother of Ossian bore him whilst in the shape of a doe. The mother of Ossian in animal shape may be an example of an ancient Celtic totemistic survival.

[245] Silva Gadelica, ii. 311-24.

[246] Silva Gadelica, ii. 311-24.

[247] For an enumeration of the Tuatha De Danann chieftains and their respective territories see Silva Gadelica, ii. 225.

[248] Cf. Le Cycle Myth. Irl., p. 285.

[249] I am personally indebted for these names to Dr. Douglas Hyde.

[250] Cf. Le Cycle Myth. Irl., pp. 284-9; cf. Rev. Celt., iii. 347.

[251] Cf. E. S. Hartland, Science of Fairy Tales (London, 1891), cc. x-xi.

[252] Stokes’s trans. in Rev. Celt., xvi. 274-5.

[253] Silva Gadelica, ii. 222 ff.; ii. 290. In another version of the second tale, referred to above (on page [295]), Laeghaire and his fifty companions enter the fairy world through a dún.