.
310; _IT_ iii. 376.

[733] O'Grady, ii. 286, 538; Campbell, _The Fians_, 78; Thiers, _Traite
des Superstitions_, ii. 86.

[734] Lady Guest, ii. 409 f.

[735] Blanchet, i. 166, 295, 326, 390.

[736] See p. 209, _supra_.

[737] Diod. Sic. v. 30; _IT_ iii. 385; _RC_ xxvi. 139; Rh[^y]s, _HL_
593.

[738] _Man. Hist. Brit._ p. x.

[739] Herodian, iii. 14, 8; Duald MacFirbis in Irish _Nennius_, p. vii;
Caesar, v. 10; _ZCP_ iii. 331.

[740] See Reinach, "Les Carnassiers androphages dans l'art
gallo-romain," _CMR_ i. 279.

[741] See Holder, _s.v._

[742] Rh[^y]s, _CB_{4} 267.

[743] Caesar, v. 12.

[744] Dio Cassius, lxii. 2.

[745] See a valuable paper by N.W. Thomas, "Survivance du Culte des
Animaux dans le Pays de Galles," in _Rev. de l'Hist. des Religions_,
xxxviii. 295 f., and a similar paper by Gomme, _Arch. Rev._ 1889, 217 f.
Both writers seem to regard these cults as pre-Celtic.

[746] Gomme, _Ethnol. in Folklore_, 30, _Village Community_, 113.

[747] Dio Cass. lxxii. 21; Logan, _Scottish Gael_, ii. 12.

[748] Joyce, _SH_ ii. 529; Martin, 71.

[749] _RC_ xxii. 20, 24, 390-1.

[750] _IT_ iii. 385.

[751] Waldron, _Isle of Man_, 49; Train, _Account of the Isle of Man_,
ii. 124.

[752] Vallancey, _Coll. de Reb. Hib._ iv. No. 13; Clement, _Fetes_, 466.
For English customs, see Henderson, _Folklore of the Northern Counties_,
125.

[753] Frazer, _Golden Bough_{2}, ii. 380, 441, 446.

[754] For other Welsh instances of the danger of killing certain birds,
see Thomas, _op. cit._ xxxviii. 306.

[755] Frazer, _Kingship_, 261; Stokes, _RC_ xvi. 418; Larminie, _Myths
and Folk-tales_, 327.

[756] See Rh[^y]s, _Welsh People_, 44; Livy, v. 34.

[757] Cf. _IT_ iii. 407, 409.

[758] Caesar, v. 14.

[759] Strabo, iv. 5. 4.

[760] Dio Cass. lxxvi. 12; Jerome, _Adv. Jovin._ ii. 7. Giraldus has
much to say of incest in Wales, probably actual breaches of moral law
among a barbarous people (_Descr. Wales_, ii. 6).

[761] _RC_ xii. 235, 238, xv. 291, xvi. 149; _LL_ 23_a_, 124_b_. In
various Irish texts a child is said to have three fathers--probably a
reminiscence of polyandry. See p. 74, _supra_, and _RC_ xxiii. 333.

[762] _IT_ i. 136; Loth, i. 134 f.; Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 308.

[763] Zimmer, "Matriarchy among the Picts," in Henderson, _Leabhar nan
Gleann_.

[764] See p. 259, _infra_.

[765] See p. 274, _infra_.

CHAPTER XV.

COSMOGONY.

Whether the early Celts regarded Heaven and Earth