Caier

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: May spears of battle wound Caier (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "May spears of battle wound Caier !"

• attestation: Caier quenched, Caier forced, Caier underground (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "Caier quenched, Caier forced, Caier underground!"

• attestation: Under ramparts, under stones with Caier (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "Under ramparts, under stones with Caier!"

• attestation: In time, N6de came to know of Caier being there, and rode there in Caier's chariot But as N6de approached Caier escaped through his host's house and hid himself in the cleft of a rock, whither N6de fo (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "In time, N6de came to know of Caier being there, and rode there in Caier's chariot But as N6de approached Caier escaped through his host's house and hid himself in the cleft of a rock, whither N6de followed Caier's greyhound; and when Caier saw N6de, the former dropped dead of shame \ This abstract of the story as told by O'Curry, will serve to show how the words of the satirist were dreaded by high and low among the ancient Irish, and how their demands had to be at once obeyed."

• attestation: it has been suggested that if a magician got a man's name he could injure him by means of his arts: now the converse seems to have been the case with (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "it has been suggested that if a magician got a man's name he could injure him by means of his arts: now the converse seems to have been the case with the Irish aer or satire, for to be effective it had, as in the instance of Caier, to mention the victim's name; and a curious instance occurs in the Book of Leinster, fo. 117, where the poet Atherne failed to curse a person whose name he could not manipulate according to the rules of his satire."

• attribution: From the former also is hardly to be severed the Irish corrgitinigb, 'sorcerers,' and corrguinacht'^, or the process of cursing to which the corrguini (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "From the former also is hardly to be severed the Irish corrgitinigb, 'sorcerers,' and corrguinacht'^, or the process of cursing to which the corrguinigh resorted, as, for instance, when N^de called forth the fatal blisters on Caier's face (p. 632)."