Re-birth and Otherworld--As a Christian Doctrine--General Historical Survey--According to the Barddas MSS.; according to Ancient and Modern Authorities--Re-incarnation of the Tuatha De Danann--King Mongan's Re-birth--Etain's Birth-- Dermot's Pre-existence--Tuan's Re-birth--Re-birth among Brythons--Arthur as a Re-incarnate Hero--Non-Celtic Parallels--Re-birth among Modern Celts: in Ireland; in Scotland; in the Isle of Man; in Wales; in Cornwall; in Brittany--Origin and Evolution of Celtic Re-birth Doctrine. SECTION III THE CULT OF GODS, SPIRITS, FAIRIES, AND THE DEAD CHAPTER VIII THE TESTIMONY OF ARCHAEOLOGY 397-426 Inadequacy of Pygmy Theory--According to the Theories concerning Divine Images and Fetishes, Gods, Daemons, and Ancestral Spirits haunt Megaliths--Megaliths are religious and funereal, as shown chiefly by _Cenn Cruaich_, Stonehenge, Guernsey menhirs, Monuments in Brittany, by the Circular Fairy-Dance as an Ancient Initiatory Sun-Dance, by Breton Earthworks, Archaeological Excavations generally, and by present-day Worship at Indian Dolmens--New Grange and Celtic Mysteries: Evidence of manuscripts; Evidence of Tradition--The Aengus Cult--New Grange compared with Great Pyramid: both have Astronomical Arrangement and same Internal Plan--Why they open to the Sunrise--Initiations in both--Great Pyramid as Model for Celtic Tumuli--Gavrinis and New Grange as Spirit Temples. CHAPTER IX THE TESTIMONY OF PAGANISM 427-41 Edicts against Pagan Cults--Cult of Sacred Waters and its Absorption by Christianity--Celtic Water Divinities--Druidic Influence on Fairy-Faith--Cult of Sacred Trees--Cult of Fairies, Spirits, and the Dead--Feasts of the Dead-- Conclusion. CHAPTER X THE TESTIMONY OF CHRISTIANITY 442-55 Lough Derg a Sacred Lake originally--Purgatorial Rites as Christianized Survivals of Ancient Celtic Rites--Purgatory as Fairyland--Purgatorial Rites parallel to Pagan Initiation Ceremonies--The Death and Resurrection Rite--Breton Pardons compared--Relation to Aengus Cult and Celtic Cave-Temples-- Origin of Purgatorial Doctrine pre-Christian--Celtic and Roman Feasts of dead shaped Christian ones--Fundamental Unity of Mythologies, Religions, and the Fairy-Faith. SECTION IV MODERN SCIENCE AND THE FAIRY-FAITH; AND CONCLUSIONS CHAPTER XI SCIENCE AND FAIRIES 456-91