Folklore; Manners and customs; Mythology; Religion
{265a} O'Curry, Manners of Ancient Irish, l. ccclxx., quoting Trin.
Coll. Dublin MS.
{265b} See also Elton's Origins of English History, pp. 299-301.
{265c} Kemble's Saxons in England, p. 258. Politics of Aristotle,
Bolland and Lang, p. 99. {265d}
{265d} Mr. Grant Allen kindly supplied me some time ago with a list of
animal and vegetable names preserved in the titles of ancient English
village settlements. Among them are: ash, birch, bear (as among the
Iroquois), oak, buck, fir, fern, sun, wolf, thorn, goat, horse, salmon
(the trout is a totem in America), swan (familiar in Australia), and
others.
{267} 'Gentiles sunt qui inter se eodem nomine sunt. Qui ab ingeniis
oriundi sunt. Quorum majorum nemo servitutem servivit. Qui capite non
sunt deminuti.'
{268} Studies in Ancient History, p. 212.
{270} Fortnightly Review, October 1869: 'Archaeologia Americana,' ii.
113.
{273a} Suidas, 3102.
{273b} Herod., i. 173.
{273c} Cf. Bachofen, p. 309.
{273d} Compare the Irish Nennius, p. 127.
{276} The illustrations in this article are for the most part copied, by
permission of Messrs. Cassell & Co., from the Magazine of Art, in which
the essay appeared.
{286} Part of the pattern (Fig. 5, b) recurs on the New Zealand Bull-
roarer, engraved in the essay on the Bull-roarer.
[Bull-roarer: 35.jpg]
{289} See Schliemann's Troja, wherein is much learning and fancy about
the Aryan Svastika.
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