Celtic Mythology: History of Celts, Religion, Archeological Finds, Legends & Myths. T. W. Rolleston

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СКАЧАТЬ rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_9f11e2dd-7847-5e13-abe3-ccfea471ec35">867. Cormac, s.v.; Martin, 105, says that the Druids extinguished all fires until their dues were paid. This may have been a tradition in the Hebrides.

868. Joyce, PN i. 216; Hone, Everyday Book, i. 849, ii. 595.

869. Pennant, Tour in Scotland, i. 291.

870. Hazlitt, 339, 397.

871. Hone, Everyday Book, ii. 595. See p. 215, supra.

872. Sinclair, Stat. Account, xi. 620.

873. Martin, 105.

874. For these usages see Ramsay, Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, ii. 439 f.; Sinclair, Stat. Account, v. 84, xi. 620, xv. 517. For the sacramental and sacrificial use of similar loaves, see Frazer, Golden Bough², i. 94, ii. 78; Grimm, Teut. Myth. iii. 1239 f.

875. New Stat. Account, Wigtownshire, 208; Hazlitt, 38, 323, 340.

876. See Miss Owen, Folk-lore of the Musquakie Indians, 50; Frazer, Golden Bough², ii. 205.

877. For notices of Beltane survivals see Keating, 300; Campbell, Journey from Edinburgh, i. 143; Ramsay, Scotland and Scotsmen, ii. 439 f.; Old Stat. Account, v. 84, xi. 620, xv. 517; Gregor, Folk-lore of N.E. of Scotland, 167. The paganism of the survivals is seen in the fact that Beltane fires were frequently prohibited by Scottish ecclesiastical councils.

878. Meyrac, Traditions ... des Ardennes, 68.

879. Bertrand, 119.

880. Ibid. 407; Gaidoz, 21; Mannhardt, Baumkultus, 514, 523; Brand, i. 8, 323.

881. Mannhardt, op. cit. 525 f.; Frazer, Golden Bough², iii. 319.

882. P. 234, supra.

883. Frazer, op. cit. i. 74; Brand, i. 222, 237, 246, 318; Hone, Everyday Book, ii. 595; Mannhardt, op. cit. 177; Grimm, Teut. Myth. 621, 777 f.

884. See my Childhood of Fiction, ch. v.

885. Frazer, i. 82, ii. 247 f., 275; Mannhardt, 315 f.

886. Martin, 117. The custom of walking deiseil round an object still survives, and, as an imitation of the sun's course, it is supposed to bring good luck or ward off evil. For the same reason the right hand turn was of good augury. Medb's charioteer, as she departed for the war, made her chariot turn to the right to repel evil omens (LU 55). Curiously enough, Pliny (xxviii. 2) says that the Gauls preferred the left-hand turn in their religious rites, though Athenæus refers to the right-hand turn among them. Deiseil is from dekso-s, "right," and svel, "to turn."

887. Hone, i. 846; Hazlitt, ii. 346.

888. This account of the Midsummer ritual is based on notices found in Hone, Everyday Book; Hazlitt, ii. 347 f.; Gaidoz, Le Dieu Soleil; Bertrand; Deloche, RC ix. 435; Folk-Lore, xii. 315; Frazer, Golden Bough², iii. 266 f.; Grimm, Teut. Myth. ii. 617 f.; Monnier, 186 f.

889. RC xvi. 51; Guiraud, Les Assemblées provinciales dans l'Empire Romain.

890. D'Arbois, i. 215, Les Celtes, 44; Loth, Annales de Bretagne, xiii. No. 2.

891. RC xvi. 51.

892. Strabo, iv. 4. 6.

893. Dion. Per. v. 570.

894. Pliny, xxii. 1.

895. Greg, de Glor. Conf. 477; Sulp. Sev. Vita S. Martini, 9; Pass. S. Symphor. Migne, Pat. Graec. v. 1463, 1466. The cult of Cybele had been introduced into Gaul, and the ritual here described resembles it, but we are evidently dealing here with the cult of a native goddess. See, however, Frazer, Adonis, 176.

896. Anwyl, Celtic Religion, 41.

897. See Hartland, Science of Fairy-Tales, 84 f.

898. Professor Rh^ys suggests that nudity, being a frequent symbol of submission to a conqueror, acquired a similar significance in religious rites (AL 180). But the magical aspect of nudity came first in time.

899. Adamnan, Vita S. Col. ii. 45.

900. See Gomme, Ethnology in Folk-lore, 30 f., Village Community, 114.

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      In primitive religion the place of worship is seldom a temple made with hands, but rather an enclosed space in which the symbol or image of the god stands. The sacredness of the god makes the place of his cult sacred. Often an open space in the forest is the scene of the regular cult. There the priests perform the sacred rites; none may enter it but themselves; and the trembling worshipper approaches it with awe lest the god should slay him if СКАЧАТЬ