rtin, 277; Sebillot, ii. 76.

[1299] Burton, _Thousand Nights and a Night_, x. 239; Chamberlain, _Aino
Folk-Tales_, 38; _L'Anthropologie_, v. 507; Maspero, _Hist. anc. des
peuples de l'Orient_, i. 183. The lust of the women of these islands is
fatal to their lovers.

[1300] An island near New Guinea is called "the land of women." On it
men are allowed to land temporarily, but only the female offspring of
the women are allowed to survive (_L' Anthrop._ v. 507). The Indians of
Florida had a tradition of an island in a lake inhabited by the fairest
women (Chateaubriand, _Autob._ 1824, ii. 24), and Fijian mythology knows
of an Elysian island of goddesses, near the land of the gods, to which a
few favoured mortals are admitted (Williams, _Fiji_, i. 114).

[1301] P. 274, _supra_. Islands may have been regarded as sacred because
of such cults, as the folk-lore reported by Plutarch suggests (p. 343,
_supra_). Celtic saints retained the veneration for islands, and loved
to dwell on them, and the idea survives in folk-belief. Cf. the
veneration of Lewismen for the Flannan islands.

[1302] Gir. Camb. _Itin. Camb._ i. 8.

[1303] Translations of some of these _Voyages_ by Stokes are given in
_RC_, vols. ix. x. and xiv. See also Zimmer, "Brendan's Meerfahrt,"
_Zeits. fuer Deut. Alt._ xxxiii.; cf. Nutt-Meyer, ch. 4, 8.

[1304] _RC_ iv. 243.

INDEX

Abnoba, 43.

Adamnan, 72.

Aed Abrat, 65.

Aed Slane, 351.

Aeracura, 37, 44.

Afanc, 190.

Agricultural rites, 3, 4, 57, 80, 107, 140, 227, 237. See Festivals.

Aife, 129.

Aillen, 70.

Aine, 70 f.

Aitherne, 84.

Albiorix, 28.

All Saints' Day, 170.

All Souls' Day, 170.

Allat, 87, 100.

Alpine race, 8, 12.

Altars, 282 f.

Amaethon, 107, 384.

Amairgen, 55, 172.

Ambicatus, 19, 222.

Amours with mortals, divine, 128, 159, 348, 350, 355.

Amulets, 30, 327 f., 323.

Ancestor worship, 165, 200.

Andarta, 41.

Andrasta, 41, 125.

Anextiomarus, 125.

Animal gods, anthropomorphic, 34, 92, 106, 139 f., 158, 210, 212, 226.

Animal worship, 3, 92, 140, 186, 208 f., 260.

Animals, burial of, 186, 211, 221.

Animals, descent from, 213, 216 f.

Animals, domestic, from the gods' land, 37, 384.

Animals, dressing as, 217, 260.

Animals, sacramental eating of, 221 f.

Animals, slaughter of, 382.

Animals, tabooed, 219.

Animism, 173, 185.

Ankou, 345.

Annwfn, 106, 111, 115, 117, 367 f., 381.

Anu, 67 f., 72, 73, 223.

Anwyl,