WURRA-WURRA [Illustration: GROTTO AND IMAGE OF WURRA-WURRA Drawn by John Innes, from his reconstruction of this very ancient Celtic Idol, as described in the Legend.] [Illustration: WURRA-WURRA A LEGEND OF SAINT PATRICK AT TARA HERE FIRST TRANSCRIBED AND COMPARED WITH THE TESTIMONY OF ANCIENT RECORDS AND MODERN HISTORICAL RESEARCH _By_ CURTIS DUNHAM AUTHOR OF “THE GOLDEN GOBLIN,” ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS, INCLUDING A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE VERY ANCIENT CELTIC IDOL CALLED WURRA-WURRA _By_ JOHN INNES NEW YORK DESMOND FITZGERALD, INC. PUBLISHERS] COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY DESMOND FITZGERALD, INC. TO THOSE DESCENDANTS OF THE O’SHAUGHNESSY WHO PRESERVED THIS LEGEND OF ST. PATRICK AT TARA; TO THE MEMORY OF FATHER O’SHAUGHNESSY, FROM WHOM IT WAS RECEIVED ORALLY; AND TO THE ANTI-WORRY SOCIETIES OF CHRISTENDOM, THIS TRANSCRIPT IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 [Illustration]