[824] Sil. Ital. iv. 213; Diod. Sic. xiv. 115; Livy, x. 26; Strabo, iv. 4. 5; Miss Hull, 92. [825] Diod. Sic. v. 29; Strabo, iv. 4. 5. [826] D'Arbois, v. 11; Diod. Sic. v. 29; Strabo, _loc. cit._ [827] _Annals of the Four Masters_, 864; _IT_ i. 205. [828] Sil. Ital. iv. 215, v. 652; Lucan, _Phar._ i. 447; Livy, xxiii. 24. [829] See p. 71, _supra_; _CIL_ xii. 1077. A dim memory of head-taking survived in the seventeenth century in Eigg, where headless skeletons were found, of which the islanders said that an enemy had cut off their heads (Martin, 277). [830] Belloguet, _Ethnol. Gaul._ iii. 100. [831] Sil. Ital. xiii. 482; Livy, xxiii. 24; Florus, i. 39. [832] _ZCP_ i. 106. [833] Loth, i. 90 f., ii. 218-219. Sometimes the weapons of a great warrior had the same effect. The bows of Gwerthevyr were hidden in different parts of Prydein and preserved the land from Saxon invasion, until Gwrtheyrn, for love of a woman, dug them up (Loth, ii. 218-219). [834] See p. 338, _infra_. In Ireland, the brain of an enemy was taken from the head, mixed with lime, and made into a ball. This was allowed to harden, and was then placed in the tribal armoury as a trophy. [835] _L'Anthropologie_, xii. 206, 711. Cf. the English tradition of the "Holy Mawle," said to have been used for the same purpose. Thorns, _Anecdotes and Traditions_, 84. [836] Arrian, _Cyneg._ xxxiii. [837] Cæsar, vi. 17; Orosius, v. 16. 6. [838] D'Arbois, i. 155. [839] Curtin, _Tales of the Fairies_, 72; _Folk-Lore_, vii. 178-179. [840] Mitchell, _Past in the Present_, 275. [841] Mitchell, _op. cit._ 271 f. [842] Cook, _Folk-Lore_, xvii. 332. [843] Mitchell, _loc. cit._ 147. The corruption of "Maelrubha" to "Maree" may have been aided by confusing the name with _mo_ or _mhor righ_. [844] Mitchell, _loc. cit._; Moore, 92, 145; Rh[^y]s, _CFL_ i. 305; Worth, _Hist. of Devonshire_, 339; Dalyell, _passim_. [845] Livy, xxiii. 24. [846] Sébillot, ii. 166-167; _L'Anthrop._ xv. 729. [847] Carmichael, _Carm. Gad._ i. 163. [848] Martin, 28. A scribe called "Sonid," which might be the equivalent of "Shony," is mentioned in the Stowe missal (_Folk-Lore_, 1895). [849] Campbell, _Superstitions_, 184 f; _Waifs and Strays of Celtic Trad._ ii. 455. [850] Aelian, xvii. 19. [851] Tacitus, _Ann._ xiv. 30; Dio Cass. lxii. 6. [852] Appian, _Celtica_, 8; Livy, xxi. 28, xxxviii. 17, x. 26. [853] Livy, v. 38, vii. 23; Polybius, ii. 29. Cf. Watteville, _Le cri de guerre chez les differents peuples_, Paris, 1889. [854] Livy, v. 38. [855] Appian, vi. 53; Muret et Chabouillet, _Catalogue des monnaies gauloises_, 6033 f., 6941 f. [856] Diod. v. 31; Justin, xxvi. 2, 4; Cicero, _de Div._ ii. 36, 76; Tac. _Ann._ xiv. 30; Strabo, iii. 3. 6. [857] Dio Cass. lxii. 6. [858] Reinach, _Catal. Sommaire_, 31; Pseudo-Plutarch, _de Fluviis_, vi. 4; _Mirab. Auscult._ 86. [859] Strabo, iv. 4. 6.