[736] See p. 209, _supra_. [737] Diod. Sic. v. 30; _IT_ iii. 385; _RC_ xxvi. 139; Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 593. [738] _Man. Hist. Brit._ p. x. [739] Herodian, iii. 14, 8; Duald MacFirbis in Irish _Nennius_, p. vii; Cæsar, v. 10; _ZCP_ iii. 331. [740] See Reinach, "Les Carnassiers androphages dans l'art gallo-romain," _CMR_ i. 279. [741] See Holder, _s.v._ [742] Rh[^y]s, _CB_{4} 267. [743] Cæsar, v. 12. [744] Dio Cassius, lxii. 2. [745] See a valuable paper by N.W. Thomas, "Survivance du Culte des Animaux dans le Pays de Galles," in _Rev. de l'Hist. des Religions_, xxxviii. 295 f., and a similar paper by Gomme, _Arch. Rev._ 1889, 217 f. Both writers seem to regard these cults as pre-Celtic. [746] Gomme, _Ethnol. in Folklore_, 30, _Village Community_, 113. [747] Dio Cass. lxxii. 21; Logan, _Scottish Gael_, ii. 12. [748] Joyce, _SH_ ii. 529; Martin, 71. [749] _RC_ xxii. 20, 24, 390-1. [750] _IT_ iii. 385. [751] Waldron, _Isle of Man_, 49; Train, _Account of the Isle of Man_, ii. 124. [752] Vallancey, _Coll. de Reb. Hib._ iv. No. 13; Clément, _Fétes_, 466. For English customs, see Henderson, _Folklore of the Northern Counties_, 125. [753] Frazer, _Golden Bough_{2}, ii. 380, 441, 446. [754] For other Welsh instances of the danger of killing certain birds, see Thomas, _op. cit._ xxxviii. 306. [755] Frazer, _Kingship_, 261; Stokes, _RC_ xvi. 418; Larminie, _Myths and Folk-tales_, 327. [756] See Rh[^y]s, _Welsh People_, 44; Livy, v. 34. [757] Cf. _IT_ iii. 407, 409. [758] Cæsar, v. 14. [759] Strabo, iv. 5. 4. [760] Dio Cass. lxxvi. 12; Jerome, _Adv. Jovin._ ii. 7. Giraldus has much to say of incest in Wales, probably actual breaches of moral law among a barbarous people (_Descr. Wales_, ii. 6). [761] _RC_ xii. 235, 238, xv. 291, xvi. 149; _LL_ 23_a_, 124_b_. In various Irish texts a child is said to have three fathers--probably a reminiscence of polyandry. See p. 74, _supra_, and _RC_ xxiii. 333. [762] _IT_ i. 136; Loth, i. 134 f.; Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 308. [763] Zimmer, "Matriarchy among the Picts," in Henderson, _Leabhar nan Gleann_. [764] See p. 259, _infra_. [765] See p. 274, _infra_. CHAPTER XV. COSMOGONY.