Martin Haug, _Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings, and Religion of the Parsees_ 3rd Ed., (London, 1884), p. 243, note 1. Strabo describes the mouth-veil worn by the Magian priests in Cappadocia (xiv. 3. 15, p. 733). At Arkon, in the island of Rügen, there was a shrine so holy that none but the priest might enter it, and even he might not breathe in it. As often as he needed to draw in or give out breath, he used to run out of the door lest he should taint the divine presence with his breath. See Saxo Grammaticus, _Historia Danica_, bk. xiv. p. 824, ed. P. E. Müller (p. 393 of Elton’s English translation). Footnote 787: P. W. Joyce, _Social History of Ancient Ireland_, i. 335 _sq._; Standish H. O’Grady, _Sylva Gadelica_, translation (London, 1892), pp. 15, 16, 41. Footnote 788: See above, pp. 94 _sq._ Footnote 789: See above, p. 229. Footnote 790: Douglas Hyde, _A Literary History of Ireland_ (London, 1899), p. 158. The tradition of the oak of Kildare survives in the lines, “_That oak of Saint Bride, which nor Devil nor Dane Nor Saxon nor Dutchman could rend from her fane_,” which are quoted by Mr. D. Fitzgerald in _Revue Celtique_, iv. (1879-1880) p. 193. Footnote 791: Douglas Hyde, _op. cit._ pp. 169-171. At Kells, also, St. Columba dwelt under a great oak-tree. The writer of his Irish life, quoted by Mr. Hyde, says that the oak-tree “remained till these latter times, when it fell through the crash of a mighty wind. And a certain man took somewhat of its bark to tan his shoes with. Now, when he did on the shoes, he was smitten with leprosy from his sole to his crown.” Footnote 792: