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CELTIC FOLKLORE

J. RHŶS

HENRY FROWDE, M.A.

PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK

CELTIC FOLKLORE

WELSH AND MANX

BY JOHN RHŶS, M.A., D.Litt. HON. LL.D. OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH PROFESSOR OF CELTIC PRINCIPAL OF JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD

VOLUME I OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS MDCCCCI

Oxford PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS BY HORACE HART, M.A. PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

TO ALL THOSE WHO HAVE IN ANY WAY CONTRIBUTED TO THE PRODUCTION OF THIS WORK IT IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED IN TOKEN OF HIS GRATITUDE BY THE AUTHOR

Our modern idioms, with all their straining after the abstract, are but primitive man’s mental tools adapted to the requirements of civilized life, and they often retain traces of the form and shape which the neolithic worker’s chipping and polishing gave them.