Chapter X
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THE CULT OF THE DEAD.
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Note 1 · Footnote 532: (return) Silius Italicus, v. 652; Lucan, i. 447. Cf. p. 241, infra.Note 2 · Footnote 533: (return) Ammian. Marcell. xv. 10. 7; Joyce, SH i. 45.Note 3 · Footnote 534: (return) Bulliot, Fouilles du Mont Beuvray, Autun, 1899, i. 76, 396.Note 4 · Footnote 535: (return) Le Braz, ii. 67; Sauvé, Folk-lore des Hautes Vosges, 295; Bérenger-Féraud, Superstitions et Survivances, i. 11.Note 5 · Footnote 536: (return) Hearn, Aryan Household, 43 f.; Bérenger-Féraud, i. 33; Rev. des Trad. i. 142; Carmichael, ii. 329; Cosquin, Trad. PopNote 6 · Footnote 537: (return) Kennedy, 126. The mischievous brownie who overturns furniture and smashes crockery is an exact reproduction of the PoNote 7 · Footnote 538: (return) Dechelette, Rev. Arch. xxxiii, (1898), 63, 245, 252.Note 8 · Footnote 539: (return) Cicero, De Leg. ii. 22.Note 9 · Footnote 540: (return) Dechelette, 256; Reinach, BF 189.Note 10 · Footnote 541: (return) Dechelette, 257-258. In another instance the ram is marked with crosses like those engraved on images of the underworNote 11 · Footnote 542: (return) Kennedy, 187.Note 12 · Footnote 543: (return) Lady Wilde, 118; Curtin, Tales, 54.Note 13 · Footnote 544: (return) Le Braz, i. 229; Gregor, 21; Cambry, Voyage dans le Finistère, i. 229.Note 14 · Footnote 545: (return) Le Braz, ii. 47; Folk-Lore, iv. 357; MacCulloch, Misty Isle of Skye, 254; Sébillot, i. 235-236.Note 15 · Footnote 546: (return) Names of places associated with the great festivals are also those of the chief pagan cemeteries, Tara, Carman, TaillNote 16 · Footnote 547: (return) Rennes Dindsenchas, RC xv. 313-314.Note 17 · Footnote 548: (return) Cf. Frazer, Adonis, 134.Note 18 · Footnote 549: (return) Cf. Chambers, Mediæval Stage, i. 250, 253.Note 19 · Footnote 550: (return) See Vigfusson-Powell, Corpus Poet. Boreale, i. 405, 419. Perhaps for a similar reason a cult of the dead may have occNote 20 · Footnote 551: (return) Miss Faraday, Folk-Lore, xvii. 398 f.Note 21 · Footnote 552: (return) Bede, de Temp. Rat. c. xv.Note 22 · Footnote 553: (return) Vigfusson-Powell, i. 419.Note 23 · Footnote 554: (return) Curtin, Tales, 157; Haddon, Folk-Lore, iv. 359; Le Braz, ii. 115 et passim.Note 24 · Footnote 555: (return) Frazer, Adonis, 253 f.Note 25 · The custom of burying grave-goods with the dead, or slaying wife or slaves on the tomb, does not necessarily point to a cult of the dead, yeNote 26 · The cult of the dead culminated at the family hearth, around which the dead were even buried, as among the Aeduii; this latter custom may haNote 27 · The dead were also fed at the grave or in the house. Thus cups were placed in the recess of a well in the churchyard of Kilranelagh by thoseNote 28 · Festivals were held in Ireland on the anniversaries of the death of kings or chiefs, and these were also utilised for purposes of trade, pleNote 29 · This would be the case where the victim was a woman, but where a male was slain, the analogy of the slaying of the divine king or his succedNote 30 · The great commemoration of the dead was held on Samhain eve, a festival intended to aid the dying powers of vegetation, whose life, however,Note 31 · Both in Ireland and in Brittany, on November eve food is laid out for the dead who come to visit the houses and to warm themselves at the fiNote 32 · All this has been in part affected by the Christian feast of All Souls. Dr. Frazer thinks that the feast of All Saints (November 1st) was in