[1093] _IT_ i. 56; D'Arbois, v. 387. [1094] See, e.g., "The Death of Muirchertach," _RC_ xxiii. 394. [1095] _HN_ xxx. 4, 13. [1096] Zimmer, _Gloss. Hibern._ 183; Reeves, _Adamnan_, 260. [1097] Kennedy, 175; cf. _IT_ i. 220. [1098] See _RC_ xii. 52 f.; D'Arbois, v. 403-404; O'Curry, _MS. Mat._ 505; Kennedy, 75, 196, 258. [1099] D'Arbois, v. 277. [1100] Stokes, _Three Middle Irish Homilies_, 24; _IT_ iii. 325. [1101] _RC_ xii. 83; Miss Hull, 215; D'Arbois, v. 424; O'Curry, _MC_ ii. 215. [1102] Keating, 341; O'Curry, _MS. Mat._ 271. [1103] _RC_ xii. 81. [1104] Miss Hull, 240 f. [1105] Maury, 14. [1106] Sébillot, ii. 226 f., i. 101, ii. 225; Bérenger-Féraud, _Superstitions et Survivances_, iii. 169 f.; _Stat. Account_, viii. 52. [1107] _Rev. des Trad._ 1893, 613; Sébillot, ii. 224. [1108] Bérenger-Féraud, iii. 218 f.; Sébillot, i. 100, 109; _RC_ ii. 484; Frazer, _Golden Bough_{2}, i. 67. [1109] D'Arbois, v. 387; _IT_ i. 52; Dixon, _Gairloch_, 165; Carmichael, _Carm. Gad._ ii. 25. [1110] _RC_ xvi. 152; Miss Hull, 243. [1111] D'Arbois, v. 133; _IT_ ii. 373. [1112] Mela, iii. 6; _RC_ xv. 471. [1113] Joyce, _OCR_ 1 f.; Kennedy, 235. [1114] Bird-women pursued by Cúchulainn; D'Arbois, v. 178; for other instances see O'Curry, _MS. Mat._ 426; Miss Hull, 82. [1115] D'Arbois, v. 215. [1116] Joyce, _OCR_ 279. [1117] Ibid. 86. [1118] _RC_ xxiii. 394; Jocelyn, _Vita S. Kent._ c. 1. [1119] _RC_ xv. 446. [1120] O'Conor, _Rer. Hib. Scrip._ ii. 142; Stokes, _Lives of Saints_, xxviii. [1121] _RC_ xv. 444. [1122] See p. 251, _supra_. [1123] O'Curry, _MS. Mat._ 240. [1124] See pp. 248, 304, _supra_; Cæsar, _vi_. 14. [1125] Zimmer, _Gloss. Hiber._ 271. Other Irish incantations, appealing to the saints, are found in the _Codex Regularum_ at Klosternenburg (_RC_ ii. 112). [1126] Leahy, i. 137; Kennedy, 301. [1127] Sauvé, _RC_ vi. 67 f.; Carmichael, _Carm. Gadel._, _passim_; _CM_ xii. 38; Joyce, _SH_ i. 629 f.; Camden, _Britannia_, iv. 488; Scot, _Discovery of Witchcraft_, iii. 15. [1128] For examples see O'Curry, _MS. Met._ 248; D'Arbois, ii. 190; _RC_ xii. 71, xxiv. 279; Stokes, _TIG_ xxxvi. f. [1129] Windisch, _Táin_, line 3467. [1130] Diod. Sic. v. 31. [1131] D'Arbois, i. 271. [1132] _RC_ xii. 109; Nutt-Meyer, i. 2; D'Arbois, v. 445. [1133] Petrie, _Ancient Music of Ireland_, i. 73; _The Gael_, i. 235 (fairy lullaby of MacLeod of MacLeod). [1134] O'Curry, _MS. Mat._ 255. [1135] _Archæologia_, xxxix. 509; _Proc. Soc. Ant._ iii. 92; Gaidoz, _Le Dieu Gaul. du Soleil_, 60 f. [1136] _IT_ iii. 409; but see Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 215. [1137] Pliny, _HN_ xxix. 3. 54. [1138] _Rev. Arch._ i. 227, xxxiii. 283. [1139] Hoare, _Modern Wiltshire_, 56; Camden, _Britannia_, 815; Hazlitt, 194; Campbell, _Witchcraft_, 84. In the Highlands spindle-whorls are thought to have been perforated by the adder, which then passes through the hole to rid itself of its old skin. [1140] Pliny, xxxii. 2. 24; Reinach, _RC_ xx. 13 f.