upon rash intrusion. For the breath tabu see Frazer, Early Hist. of the Kingship, 224.
174. Joyce, SH i. 335.
175. P. 41, supra.
176. Martin, 119; Campbell, Witchcraft, 248.
177. Frazer, op. cit. 225.
178. Joyce, PN i. 195; O'Grady, ii. 198; Wood-Martin, i. 366; see p. 42, supra.
179. Fitzgerald, RC iv. 190. Aine has no connection with Anu, nor is she a moon-goddess, as is sometimes supposed.
180. RC iv. 189.
181. Keating, 318; IT iii. 305; RC xiii. 435.
182. O'Grady, ii. 197.
183. RC xii. 109, xxii. 295; Cormac, 87; Stokes, TIG xxxiii.
184. Holder, i. 341; CIL vii. 1292; Cæsar, ii. 23.
185. LL 11b; Cormac, s.v. Neit; RC iv. 36; Arch. Rev. i. 231; Holder, ii. 714, 738.
186. Stokes, TIG, LL 11a.
187. Rh^ys, HL 43; Stokes, RC xii. 128.
188. RC xii. 91, 110.
189. See p. 131.
190. Petrie, Tara, 147; Stokes, US 175; Meyer, Cath Finntrága, Oxford, 1885, 76 f.; RC xvi. 56, 163, xxi. 396.
191. CIL vii. 507; Stokes, US 211.
192. RC i. 41, xii. 84.
193. 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).
194. Joyce, SH i. 261; Miss Hull, 186; Meyer, Cath Finntraga, 6, 13; IT i. 131, 871.
195. LL 10a.
196. LL 10a, 30b, 187c.
197. RC xxvi. 13; LL 187c.
198. Cf. the personification of the three strains of Dagda's harp (Leahy, ii. 205).
199. See p. 223, infra.
200. D'Arbois, ii. 372.
201. RC xii. 77, 83.
202. LL 11; Atlantis, London, 1858-70, iv. 159.
203. O'Donovan, Grammar, Dublin, 1845, xlvii.
204. RC xii. 77.
205. Lucian, Herakles.
206. RC xii. 89. The name is found in Gaulish Gobannicnos, and in Welsh Abergavenny.
207. IT i. 56; Zimmer, Glossæ Hibernicæ, 1881, 270.
208. Atlantis, 1860, iii. 389.
209. RC xii. 89.
210. LL lla.
211. RC xii. 93.
212. Connac, 56, and Cóir Anmann (IT iii. 357) divide the name as día-na-cecht and explain it as "god of the powers."
213. RC xii. 67. For similar stories of plants springing from graves, see my Childhood of Fiction, 115.
214. RC xii, 89, 95.
215. RC vi. 369; Cormac, 23.
216. Cormac, 47, 144; IT iii. 355, 357.
217. IT iii. 355; D'Arbois, i. 202.
218. LL 246a.
219. Irish MSS. Series, i. 46; D'Arbois, ii. 276. In a MS. edited by Dr. Stirn, Oengus was Dagda's son by Elemar's wife, the amour taking place in her husband's absence. This incident is a parallel to the birth-stories of Mongan and Arthur, and has also the Fatherless Child theme, since Oengus goes in tears to Mider because he has been taunted with having no father or mother. In the same MS. it is the Dagda who instructs
