[617] Rh[^y]s, _CFL_ i. 366; _Folk-Lore_, viii. 281. If the fish appeared when an invalid drank of the well, this was a good omen. For the custom of burying sacred animals, see Herod, ii. 74; Ælian, xiii. 26. [618] Gomme, _Ethnol. in Folklore_, 92. [619] _Trip. Life_, 113; Tigernach, _Annals_, A.D. 1061. [620] Mackinley, 184. [621] Burne, _Shropshire Folk-Lore_, 416; Campbell, _WHT_ ii. 145. [622] _Old Stat. Account_, xii. 465. [623] S. Patrick, when he cleared Ireland of serpents, dealt in this way with the worst specimens. S. Columba quelled a monster which terrified the dwellers by the Ness. Joyce, _PN_ i. 197; Adamnan, _Vita Columb._ ii. 28; Kennedy, 12, 82, 246; _RC_ iv. 172, 186. [624] _RC_ xii. 347. [625] For the water-horse, see Campbell, _WHT_ iv. 307; Macdongall, 294; Campbell, _Superstitions_, 203; and for the Manx _Glashtyn_, a kind of water-horse, see Rh[^y]s, _CFL_ i. 285. For French cognates, see Bérenger-Féraud, _Superstitions et Survivances_, i. 349 f. [626] Reinach, _CMR_ i. 63. [627] Orosius, v. 15. 6. [628] _LU_ 2_a_. Of Eochaid is told a variant of the Midas story--the discovery of his horse's ears. This is also told of Labraid Lore (_RC_ ii. 98; Kennedy, 256) and of King Marc'h in Brittany and in Wales (Le Braz, ii. 96; Rh[^y]s, _CFL_ 233). Other variants are found in non-Celtic regions, so the story has no mythological significance on Celtic ground. [629] Ptol. ii. 2. 7. [630] Campbell, _WHT_ iv. 300 f.; Rh[^y]s, _CFL_ i. 284; Waldron, _Isle of Man_, 147. [631] Macdougall, 296; Campbell, _Superstitions_, 195. For the Uruisg as Brownie, see _WHT_ ii. 9; Graham, _Scenery of Perthshire_, 19. [632] Rh[^y]s, _CFL_ ii. 431, 469, _HL_, 592; _Book of Taliesin_, vii. 135. [633] Sébillot, ii. 340; _LL_ 165; _IT_ i. 699. [634] Sébillot, ii. 409. [635] See Pughe, _The Physicians of Myddfai_, 1861 (these were descendants of a water-fairy); Rh[^y]s, _Y Cymmrodor_, iv. 164; Hartland, _Arch. Rev._ i. 202. Such water-gods with lovely daughters are known in most mythologies--the Greek Nereus and the Nereids, the Slavonic Water-king, and the Japanese god Ocean-Possessor (Ralston, _Songs of the Russian People_, 148; Chamberlain, _Ko-ji-ki_, 120). Manannan had nine daughters (Wood-Martin, i. 135). [636] Sébillot, ii. 338, 344; Rh[^y]s, _CFL_ i. 243; Henderson, _Folk-Lore of the N. Counties_, 262. Cf. the rhymes, "L'Arguenon veut chaque année son poisson," the "fish" being a human victim, and "Blood-thirsty Dee Each year needs three, But bonny Don, She needs none." [637] Sébillot, ii. 339.