Celts

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Next come the earlier Celts of the Goidelic branch, the traces, linguistic and other, of whose presence in Wales have demanded repeated notice; and la (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Preface)

  "Next come the earlier Celts of the Goidelic branch, the traces, linguistic and other, of whose presence in Wales have demanded repeated notice; and last of all come the other Celts, the linguistic

ancestors of the Welsh and all the other speakers of Brythonic."

• attestation: This arises from the fact that we Celts have a knack of thinking ourselves in complete accord with what we fancy to be in the inquirer's mind, so that we are quite capable of misleading him in perfect (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Preface)

  "This arises from the fact that we Celts have a knack of thinking ourselves in complete accord with what we fancy to be in the inquirer's mind, so that we are quite capable of misleading him in perfect good faith."

• attestation: A tale from the other end of the tract of country once occupied by a sprinkling, perhaps, of Celts among a population of Picts, makes the man, and not the fairies, supply the music (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "A tale from the other end of the tract of country once occupied by a sprinkling, perhaps, of Celts among a population of Picts, makes the man, and not the fairies, supply the music."

• attestation: The time assigned to the sheep sacrifice, namely May-day, leads me to make some remarks on the importance of that day among the Celts (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "The time assigned to the sheep sacrifice, namely May-day, leads me to make some remarks on the importance of that day among the Celts."

• comparison: The next great day in the pagan calendar of the Celts is called in Manx Laa Lhunys, in Irish Lugnassad, the assembly or fair, which was associated with the name of the god Lug (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "The next great day in the pagan calendar of the Celts is called in Manx Laa Lhunys, in Irish Lugnassad, the assembly or fair, which was associated with the name of the god Lug."

• attestation: I may remark that Celts and Teutons seem to have been generally pretty well agreed as to the virtues of the rowan tree (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)

  "I may remark that Celts and Teutons seem to have been generally pretty well agreed as to the virtues of the rowan tree."

• attestation: These instances do not warrant the induction that Celts are higher in the instep than Teutons, and that they have inherited that characteristic from the non- Aryan element in their ancestry (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)

  "These instances do not warrant the induction that Celts are higher in the instep than Teutons, and that they have inherited that characteristic from the non- Aryan element in their ancestry."

• attestation: With regard to the Br3rthonic Celts, there is nothing to suggest that he belonged also to them except in the sense of his having been probably adopted by them from the Goidels (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "With regard to the Br3rthonic Celts, there is nothing to suggest that he belonged also to them except in the sense of his having been probably adopted by them from the Goidels."

• attestation: Did it originate among the Celts and the Greeks and other nations who relate it? or has it simply originated among one of those peoples and spread itself to the others? or else have they all inherited (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "Did it originate among the Celts and the Greeks and other nations who relate it? or has it simply originated among one of those peoples and spread itself to the others? or else have they all inherited it from a common source?"

• attestation: Now the lessons which the words here grouped together contain for the student of man is, that the Celts, and certain other widely separated Aryans, unless we should rather say the whole of the Aryan f (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "Now the lessons which the words here grouped together contain for the student of man is, that the Celts, and certain other widely separated Aryans, unless we should rather say the whole of the Aryan family, were once in the habit of closely associating both the soul and one's name with the breath of life."

• attestation: It has been seen that it is from the point of view of magic that the full importance of one's name was most keenly realized by our ancient Celts; that is, of magic more especially in that stage of its (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "It has been seen that it is from the point of view of magic that the full importance of one's name was most keenly realized by our ancient Celts; that is, of magic more especially in that stage of its history when it claimed as its own a certain degree of skill in the art of verse-making."

• attestation: The neo-Celtic nations of these islands consist, speaking roughly, of a mixture of the invading Celts with the earlier inhabitants whom the Celts found in possession (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "The neo-Celtic nations of these islands consist, speaking roughly, of a mixture of the invading Celts with the earlier inhabitants whom the Celts found in possession."

• attestation: They agreed doubtless in many things, and perhaps, among others, in cherishing an inherited reluctance to disclose their names, but the Celts as Aryans were never without the decimal system of countin (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "They agreed doubtless in many things, and perhaps, among others, in cherishing an inherited reluctance to disclose their names, but the Celts as Aryans were never without the decimal system of counting."