[293.2] Keating, i. 101. See also 207, 209. On the latter page “a poem from a certain book of invasion” is quoted at length. It contains an enumeration of the four jewels of the Tuatha Dé Danann, among them the Lia Fáil, “which used to roar under the king of Ireland.” In the _Baile an Scail_ (The Champion’s Ecstasy) Conna of the Hundred Fights steps on the stone accidentally, and is told by the Druid who accompanies him, “Fál has screamed under thy feet. The number of its screams is the number of kings that shall come of thy seed for ever; but I may not name them.” In this passage the stone is said to have come from the Island of Foal to abide for ever in the land of Tailtin (Nutt, i. 187, summarizing O’Curry’s translation). [294.1] O’Curry, _On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish_ (three vols., London, 1873), vol. i. (Sullivan’s Introduction), p. clxxxiii. Spencer, _View of the State of Ireland_, says that the Tanist is “the eldest of the kinne.” _Ancient Irish Histories_ (Dublin, Hibernia Press, 1809), i. 12. [295.1] O’Curry, ii. 199. From a reference in an Irish text translated by Professor Windisch from the _Lebor na hUidre_, it seems that the bull was required to be white. _Irische Texte_, ser. i. 200. [296.1] _Revue Celtique_, xxii. 22, in the story of the Sack of Dá Derga’s Hostel translated by Whitley Stokes. [297.1] Haltrich, 195. [298.1] _Jātaka_, iv. 23, Story No. 445. [298.2] Jülg, 60, Story No. 2. [299.1] Radloff, i. 208. [299.2] _Folk-Lore_, iv. 202. [300.1] Ralston, _Tibetan Tales_, p. 29. [300.2] _Bakhtyár Náma_, 51. [301.1] Stumme, 123, Story No. 15. [301.2] Burton, _Nights_, iv. 210. [301.3] _N. Ind. N. and Q._, iv. 66. Similarly in a story from Mirzapur, the first man met in the forest is made king. _Ibid._, ii. 81. In another story from Mirzapur a trained elephant is let loose to choose the king’s bride. _Ibid._, iii. 103. [302.1] Radloff, vi. 157. [302.2] _Ibid._, iv. 143. [302.3] Prym und Socin, _Kurdische Sammlungen_, Erste Abteil. (St Petersburg, 1887); übersetz., 32. [303.1] Leclère, 16. “Tous ceux qui étaient presents à ce conseil… decidèrent qu’on consulterait immédiatement les chevaux.” [303.2] _Kathá_, ii. 102. [304.1] Natesa Sastri, 126. [304.2] Steel and Temple, 140. In other stories from Kashmir, it is “an elephant” (Knowles, 169, 309). [304.3] _Rev. Trad. Pop._, iv. 442. [304.4] Knowles, 158. Other stories, _Ibid._, 17, 309; _Bakhtyár Náma_, 169 (notes by the Editor); Day, 99, Story No. 5. [305.1] _Kathákoça_, 155. [306.1] Luzel, _Lég. Chrét._, i. 282 (pt. iii., Story No. 11); a variant, _Mélusine_, i. 300. [307.1] _F.-L. Journ._, iv. 338 _sqq._, including the references at foot of 348. [308.1] Friedrich von Raumer, _Geschichte der Hohenstaufen und ihrer Zeit_ (Leipzig, 1824), iii. 74. [308.2] Eusebius, _Eccles. Hist._, vi. 29.