Place-name Stories The Triad of the Swineherds of the Isle of Prydain The former importance of swine's flesh as food . The Triad clause about Cott's straying sow . Coifs wanderings arranged to explain place-names The Kulhwch account of Arthur's hunt of Twrch The hunt resumed in Pembrokeshire . The boars reaching the Loughor Valley Their separation One killed by the Men of ILydaw in Ystrad Yw . counter in the estuary of the Severn The comb, razor, and shears of Twrch Trwyth . Some of the names evidence of Goidelic speech . The story about Gwydion and his swine compared Place-name explanations blurred or effaced . Enumeration of Arthur's losses in the hunt . The Men of ILydaw's identity and their Syfadon home Further traces of Goidelic names .... A Twrch Trwyth incident mentioned by Nennius The place-name Car n Cabal discussed . Duplicate names with the Goidelic form preferred in The same phenomenon in the Mabinogion . The relation between the families of Lyr, Don, and The elemental associations of ILyr and Lir . Difficulties Of The Folklorist The terrors of superstition and magic . The folklorist's activity no fostering of superstition Folklore a portion of history The difficulty of separating story and history illustrated by the March and Labraid stories. Ychen Bannog Possible survival of traditions about the urus A brief review of the lake legends and the iron tabu The scrappiness of the Welsh Tom Tit Tot stories The story of the widow of Kittlerunrpit compared Items to explain the names Slli Ffrit and Sili go Dwt Bwca'r Trwyn both brownie and bogie in one That bwca a fairy in service, like the Pennant nurse The question of fairies concealing their names Magic identifying the name with the person Modryb Man regarding cheese-baking as disastrous to Her story about the reaper's little black soul The soul as a pigmy or a lizard, and the word enaid . 607 A different notion in the Mabinogi of Math . . 608 The belief in the persistence of the body through changes 610 Shape-shifting and rebirth in Gwion's transformations 612 Tuan mac Cairill, Amairgen, and Taliessin . . . 615 D'Arbois de Jubainville's view of Erigena's teaching . 617 The druid master of his own transformations . . 620 Death not a matter of course so much as of magic 620 This incipient philosophy as Gaulish druidism . . 622 The Gauls not all of one and the same beliefs . . 623 Enw, 'name,' and the idea of breathing . . . 625 The exact nature of the association still obscure . . 627 The Celts not distinguishing between names and A Celt's name on him, not by him or with him . . 629 The druid's method of name-giving non-Aryan . . 631 Magic requiring metrical formulae 632 The professional man's curse producing blisters . . 632 A natural phenomenon arguing a thin-skinned race . 633 Cursing of no avail without the victim's name . . 635 Magic and kingship linked in the female line . . 636 Race In Folklore And Myth .... The question of the feminine in Welsh syntax The Irish goddess Danu and the Welsh Don Tynghed or destiny in the Kulhwch story Traces of a Welsh confarreatio in the same context pokk in the Balder story compared with tynghed Questions of mythology all the harder owing to race mixture 652 Whether the picture of Cuchulainn in a rage be Cuchulainn exempt from the Ultonian couvade .. Cuchulainn racially a Celt in a society reckoning The notion of the fairies being all women An illustration from Central Australia . Fairy counting by fives evidence of a non-Celtic race The Basque numerals as an illustration . Prof. Sayce on Irishmen and Berbers . Dark-complexioned people and fairy changelings The blond fairies of the Pennant district exceptional A summary of fairy life from previous chapters . Sir John Wynne's instance of men taken for fairies Some of the Brythonic names for fairies Dwarfs attached to the fortunes of their masters The question of fairy cannibalism . The fairy Corannians and the historical Coritani St. Guthlac at Croyland in the Fens The Irish side, side, and the Welsh Caer Sidi The mound dwellings of Pechts and Irish fairies Prof. J. Morris Jones explaining the non-Aryan syntax of neo-Celtic by means of Egyptian and Berber The Picts probably the race that introduced it The first pre-Celtic people here .... Probably of the same race as the neolithic dwarfs The other pre-Celtic race, the Picts and the people A word or two by way of epilogue. Additions And Corrections Index . . . . . 695 We are too hasty when we set down our ancestors in the gross for fools, for the monstrous inconsistencies (as they seem to us) involved in their creed of witchcraft. In the relations of this visible world we find them to have been as rational, and shrewd to detect an historic anomaly, as ourselves. But when once the invisible world was supposed to be opened, and the lawless agency of bad spirits assumed, what measures of probability, of decency, of fitness, or proportion—of that which distinguishes the likely from the palpable absurd—could they have to guide them in the rejection or admission of any particular testimony? That maidens pined away, wasting inwardly as their waxen images consumed before a fire—that corn was lodged, and cattle lamed—that whirlwinds uptore in diabolic revelry the oaks of the forest—or that spits and kettles only danced a fearful-innocent vagary about some rustic's kitchen when no wind was stirring—were all equally probable where no law of agency was understood. .. . There is no law to judge of the lawless, or canon by which a dream may be criticised. Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia. |