[201] See Choice Notes from 'Notes and Queries,' pp. 117-8.
[202] For instance, when Cúchulainn had fallen asleep under the effect of fairy music, Fergus warned his friends that he was not to be disturbed, as he seemed to be dreaming and seeing a vision: see Windisch's Irische Texte, p. 208; also the Revue Celtique, v. 231. For parallels to the two stories in this paragraph, see Tylor's first chapter on Animism in his Primitive Culture, and especially the legend of King Gunthram, i. 442.
[203] See Mr. Gomme's presidential address to the Folk-Lore Society, printed in Folk-Lore for 1892, pp. 6-7.
[204] See Sale's preliminary discourse to his translation of the Koran, § iv.
[205] Perhaps we may regard this as the more Goidelic account of Blodeuwed's origin: at any rate, traces of a different one have been noticed in a note at p. 439 above.
[206] One version of it is given in the Myvyrian Archaiology, i. 176-8; and two other versions are to be found in the Cymmrodor, viii. 177-89, where it is suggested that the author was Iolo Goch, who flourished in the fourteenth century. See also my Arthurian Legend, pp. 57-8.
[207] See also the notes on these passages, given in San-Marte's edition of Geoffrey, pp. 219, 463-5, and his Beiträge zur bretonischen und celtisch germanischen Heldensage (Quedlinburg and Leipsic, 1847), p. 81.
[209] See Wood-Martin's Pagan Ireland (London, 1895), p. 140.
[210] See Choice Notes, p. 61, where it is also stated that the country people in Yorkshire used to give the name of souls to certain night-flying white moths. See also the Athenæum, No. 1041, Oct. 9, 1847.
[211] For this also I am indebted to Wood-Martin's book, p. 140.
[212] See the Book of the Dun Cow, fo. 198, and Windisch's Irische Texte, pp. 136-45. An abstract of the story will be found in the Hibbert Lectures on Celtic Heathendom, p. 502.
[213] See the Book of the Dun Cow, fo. 129a-133a; Windisch's Irische Texte, pp. 117-33, more especially pp. 127-31; also my Arthurian Legend, pp. 29-33.
[214] See the Book of Taliessin, poem vii, in Skene's Four Ancient Books of Wales, ii. 136-7; also poem viii, p. 137 et seq.
[215] Some account of this process will be found in Elton's Origins of English History (London, 1882), p. 33, where he has drawn on Martin's Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, published in 1703: see pp. 204-5.