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id: 18041
title: Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times
author: Anwyl, E. (Edward)
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  religion the Aryan conquerors of Celtic lands may have brought with them, Celtic religion, in the names of its deities, its rites, and its In the chief countries of Celtic civilisation, Gaul, Cisalpine and the dominant type of Celtic speech over the greater part of Gaul came to whether he was haunted or not, early man in the Celtic world as The place of animal-worship in the Celtic religion the historic deities of Gaul and Britain in Roman times could have come speaks as the ancient god of the Gauls, was probably regarded as her son, CHAPTER IV--CELTIC RELIGION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDIVIDUALISED DEITIES Like other religions, those of the Celtic lands of Europe supplemented The more we investigate the state of the Celtic world in ancient times, solution of early man in the Celtic world was, that within him there was tends to confirm the view that early man, in the Celtic world as


id: 14672
title: The Religion of the Ancient Celts
author: MacCulloch, J. A. (John Arnott)
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  darkness, and in the divinities sun-gods and dawn-goddesses and a host these, while the Roman gods, by whose names Cæsar calls the Celtic the Roman god is added a descriptive Celtic epithet or a word derived anthropomorphic form of an earlier animal god, like the wolf-skin of Earth-god, the Celtic Dispater or Dagda, whose consort the goddess divinities, hostile to the gods of the Celts or regarded as dark But myth-making man easily developed the suggestion; gods were like men Celtic gods and heroes are often called after their mothers, regarded as gods, though certain Druids may have been divine priests, gods superseded goddesses, the divine priest-king would take the place Celtic Earth-god was lord of the dead, and that he probably took the there existed a dog totem or god, not of the Celts, but of a pre-Celtic of a divine king connected with an oak and sacred well, the god or


id: 4926
title: The Age of Chivalry
author: Bulfinch, Thomas
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  fellow," said King Arthur, "canst thou bring me there where this "Sir knight," said Arthur, "for what cause must die." "That were shame unto thee," said Sir Launcelot; "thou thou canst." "Alas!" said Sir Launcelot, "that ever a knight white knight, and said, "Sir, thou fightest wonderful well, as Arthur took Sir Tristram by the hand, and went to the Table Round, King Arthur made Sir Tristram knight of the Table Round with great it shall never be said, in court, or among good knights, that Sir you, fair lords." Then the old man said unto King Arthur, "Sir, I "Come forth," said Arthur, "if thou darest, and I promise thee I year; and King Arthur received back the queen, and Sir Launcelot But when the year was passed, King Arthur and Sir Gawain came with acts of the said King Arthur, and of his noble Knights of the


id: 7885
title: Celtic Fairy Tales
author: nan
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  stories told by the chief masters of the Celtic folk-tale, Campbell, "To whom art thou talking, my son?" said Conn the king. Said a man of them to him: "Are you coming with us to-night, Guleesh?" "If you are, come along," said the little man, and out they went all "Tell me which of them is the king''s daughter," said Guleesh, when he waiting-man came to him, he said to him to let the stable gillies know "Then went my father," said Conall, "and he got me a wife, and I was The king said, "Oh, Conall, you came through great hardships. Now it happened about this time that the son of a great king had come "I''ll soon let you know," said the old man, and he took from his pocket but the man that put the heads on?" said the king. lad," said the king''s daughter; "the man that took the heads off the


id: 8161
title: Fragments of Ancient Poetry
author: Macpherson, James
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  poems of the same strain" still extant in the Highlands; Blair like I" will serve to illustrate this tendency: _love, son, hill, deer, dogs, bow-string, wind, stream, rushes, mist, oak, friends_. The three last poems in the collection are fragments which the translator My love is a son of the hill. voice like the summer-wind.--I sit wind behind thee; thy bosom heaving my love, and bring thee to thy heard of thy death on the hill; I heard rest on the rock; and let me hear thy Though fair thou art, my love, as the was like a storm; thy sword, a beam warriours, Oscur my son, shall I see thee shall Durstan this night carry thy fair-one hear my voice, sons of my love! lost no son; thou hast lost no daughter Tall thou art on the hill; fair breasts like two smooth rocks on the hill


id: 35862
title: Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales
author: nan
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  stories told by the chief masters of the Celtic folk-tale, Campbell, "To whom art thou talking, my son?" said Conn the king. said to him, "Is it to thy mind what the woman says, my son?" Said a man of them to him: "Are you coming with us to-night, Guleesh?" "If you are, come along," said the little man, and out they went all "Tell me which of them is the king''s daughter," said Guleesh, when he waiting-man came to him, he said to him to let the stable gillies know "Then went my father," said Conall, "and he got me a wife, and I was The king said, "O Conall, you came through great hardships. "I''ll soon let you know," said the old man, and he took from his but the man that put the heads on?" said the king. lad," said the king''s daughter; "the man that took the heads off the


id: 34453
title: More Celtic Fairy Tales
author: nan
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  Now as she said this King Lir had come to the shores of the lake and night Paddy went down to the cellar, and the little man said to him: "My "Sigh of a king''s son under spells!" said the horse; "but have no care; "Sigh of a king''s son under spells!" said the horse; "mount and you "Son of King Underwaves," said the rider of the black horse, "don''t "I do," said the King''s son, "an old hag who has great power and "Never fear," said the young man, "I am the son of a King that the old got food and drink at the king''s; and when he was going away he said, When night came, and all men went to rest, the King was for going away him; and when they went out and saw the head, the King said, "I and my


id: 55025
title: Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 1 of 2)
author: Rhys, John, Sir
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  Mountain, and their most favourite place was near the small lake called old men declare that at that time a commotion took place in the lake, had often heard the lake story from an old aunt of his who lived at In both stories the young man''s mother comes to his help with another short story about fairies, which they had heard another old so, but before he could take her away, a little fat old man came to the fairies called to ask her to come and attend on his wife. he heard his mother repeat scores of times that the old people used to edition, published in the year 1850, one reads the following story, way in which a young man whom my notes connect with a place called results, described as follows by a man living at a place on the way


id: 55989
title: Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 2 of 2)
author: Rhys, John, Sir
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  The story relating to the lake is given as follows any case the ninth generation, called in Welsh y nawfed âch, which certain Welsh and Irish stories agree; and in one of the latter, That is the story of Twrch Trwyth, and Dr. Stokes calls my attention cases the story of the hunt accounts for the names of the places of the play on the names of places in question in the story of Twrch the stories having been in Goidelic before they put on a Welsh dress. he spells Welsh words: in fact one need not go beyond this very story in the Welsh stories till they had come under English influence. both kinds of story is suggested by one of the uses of the Welsh Sethor-Ethor-Othor-Sele-Dele-Dreng gerce of the stories called in Welsh the ''Four Branches of the Mabinogi'' class in these stories of the Welsh Goidels had their magic handed down


