[168] Baring-Gould, _Curious Myths_, p. 194. [169] Spence, Lewis, _Myths of Mexico and Peru_, p. 170. [170] P. 159. [171] _Surnames_, p. 230. [172] The ecclesiastical _raison d'être_ for St. Andrew's situation is stated as having been "_to the end that his pain should endure the longer_". [173] "Diogenes Lærtius, in the proem of his philosophical history, reckons the Druids among the chief authors of the barbarous theology and philosophy, long anterior to the Greeks, their disciples: and Phurnutus, in his treatise of the Nature of the Gods, says most expressly that among the many and various fables which the antient Greecs had about the Gods, some were derived from the Mages, the Africans, and Phrygians, and others from other nations: for which he cites Homer as a witness, nor is there anything that bears a greater witness to itself."--Toland, _History of Druids_. London, 1814, p. 106. [174] _Ancient Britain_, p. 284. [175] Keightley, _Fairy Mythology_, p. 818. [176] Anon., _The Fairy Family_, 1857. [177] Keightley, _Fairy Mythology_, pp. 25, 441. [178] Quoted from Davies, E., _Celtic Researches_, p. 560. [179] Livy mentions that during the Macedonian War a Gaulish soldier foretold an eclipse of the moon to the Roman Army (Liber XLIV., c. xxxvii.). [180] "A few years ago it would have been deemed the height of absurdity to imagine that the English and the Hindus were originally one people, speaking the same language, and clearly distinguished from other families of mankind; and yet comparative philology has established this fact by evidence as clear and irresistible as that the earth revolves round the sun."--Smith, Dr. Wm., _Lectures on the English Language_, p. 2. [181] Keightley, _Fairy Mythology_, p. 290. [182] Canon ffrench, _Prehistoric Faith in Ireland_, p. 80. [183] _Cf._ Frazer, Sir J. G., _Psyche's Task_, pp. 7, 14. [184] _Cf._ _Ibid._ [185] _Curious Myths_, p. 557. [186] _Cf._ Keightley, T., _Fairy Mythology_, p. 298. [187] There is a certain section of Christianity that still revels in hymns such as the following:-- "His nostrils breathe out fiery streams, He's a consuming fire, His jealous eyes His wrath inflame And raise His vengeance higher." [188] This and the several subsequent quotations from Bardic "Philosophy" are taken from the collection published in 1862, by the Welsh MSS. Society, under the title _Barddas_. Whatever may be the precise date of these axioms the ideas they express well repay careful consideration.