Note 9 — Chapter VI · The Folklore of the Wells
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M. Loth’s remarks in point will be found in the Revue Celtique, xiii. 496–7, where he compares with tut the Breton teuz, ‘lutin, génie malfaisant ou bienfaisant’; and for the successive guesses on the subject of the name Morgan tut one should also consult Zimmer’s remarks in Foerster’s Introduction to his Erec, pp. xxvii–xxxi, and my Arthurian Legend, p. 391, to which I should add a reference to the Book of Ballymote, fo. 360a, where we have o na bantuathaib, which O’Curry has rendered ‘on the part of their Witches’ in his Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, iii. 526–7. Compare dá bhantuathaigh, ‘two female sorcerers,’ in Joyce’s Keating’s History of Ireland, pp. 122–3. ↑