The Mythology of the British Islands: An Introduction to Celtic Myth, Legend, Poetry, and RomanceSquire, Charles
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The Mythology of the British Islands: An Introduction to Celtic Myth, Legend, Poetry, and Romance
Squire, Charles
Celts -- Folklore; Mythology, Celtic
_Crom Croich_, 40.
_Cromm Cruaich_, 38, 39, 41, 154, 402.
Cronos, 63, 65, 326.
“Croppies’ Grave”, the, at Tara, 72.
Cruind, the river, 165.
Cu, son of Diancecht, 62, 90.
Cualgne, a province of Ulster, 164, 165, 175.
Cuan, head of the Munster Fenians, 218.
Cuchulainn, chief hero of the Ultonians, 10, 11, 14, 27, 154, 155, 156,
158-188, 192, 193, 202, 204, 210, 217, 223, 227, 274, 366;
is the son of Lugh, 159-160;
obvious solar character of, 158-159;
how he obtained his name, 160-161;
fights in the Táin Bó Chuailgne, 164-175;
his wooing of Emer, 184-186;
his raid upon the Other World, 175-176;
his death, 183;
is raised from the dead by Saint Patrick, 227.
Culann, chief smith of the Ultonians, 161;
“Culann’s Hound”, 161, 166.
“Culture-King”, 153.
Cumhal, father of Finn, 204, 209, 210, 275.
Cunedda, a North British king, 373.
Cunobelinus, king of Britain, 387.
Curoi, king of Munster, 147, 154, 179.
Custennin, 343, 344.
Cuthbert, Saint, bulls sacrificed to, 413.
Cwm Cawlwyd, the Owl of, 349.
_Cwm Annwn_, the “Hounds of Hell”, 391, 392.
Cwy, 320.
Cymbeline, Shakespeare’s, 387.
Cymri, 255, 373.
Dagda, the, Gaelic god of the Earth, 54, 78, 79, 87, 98, 107-109, 116,
117, 122, 132, 135, 136, 138-141, 156, 157, 211, 213, 228, 230, 240,
243, 269, 346, 366;
his dress, arms, and harp, 54;
his porridge-feast, 108;
is cheated by his son Angus, 139;
resigns the kingship of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 140;
his last appearance, 157.
Daire of Cualgne, owner of the Brown Bull, 165.
Dalân, druid of Eochaid Airem, 392.
Danes, the, 230.
Danu, the mother of the Gaelic gods, the same as Anu, _q.v._, 44, 50,
51, 70, 245, 252, 407.
Dart, river, 414.
Dartmoor, 392.
Darvha, Lake, 143-145.
Deaf Valley, the, 180.
Dechtiré, mother of Cuchulainn, 156, 159, 160, 181.
Dé Danann, see Tuatha Dé Danann.
Dee, river, 413.
Deimne, the first name of Finn, 210.
Deirdre, 190-200;
Deirdre’s Farewell to Alba, 194-195;
Deirdre’s Lament over the Sons of Usnach, 199-200.
Demetia, Roman province of, 273, 278.
Demetrius, an early traveller in Britain, 326.
“Demon of the air”, Aeife changed into a, 145.
Derivla, a sacred well in the island of Inniskea, 415.
Desmond, fourth Earl of, nicknamed “the Magician”, 245.
“Destiny, laying a”, a Celtic custom, 262-265, 340.
Devon, 312, 392.
Devwy, the dales of, 320.
_Dialogue of the Elders_, the, 205, 222, 404;
Dialogues of Patrick and Ossian, 226-227.
Diancecht, the Gaelic god of medicine, 61, 62, 78, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85,
86, 90, 110, 141, 232, 269;
makes a silver hand for Nuada, 78;
kills his son Miach, 81-82;
presides over the “Spring of Health”, 110;
prescriptions of Diancecht, 232.
Diarmait O’Duibhne, the Fenian Adonis, 209, 212, 215-221, 315.
Dinadan, Sir, 328.
Dinas Dinllev, 264.
Dinas Emrys, 324, 381.
Dingwall, Registers of the Presbytery of, 412.
_Dinnsenchus_, 38, 40, 132, 154.
Dio Cassius, 387.
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