CHAPTER XI

Folklore Philosophy 607

The soul as a pigmy or a lizard, and the word enaid 607

A different notion in the Mabinogi of Math 608

The belief in the persistence of the body through

changes 610

Shape-shifting and rebirth in Gwion's

transformations 612

Tuan mac Cairill, Amairgen, and Taliessin 615

D'Arbois de Jubainville's view of Erigena's

teaching 617

The druid master of his own transformations 620

Death not a matter of course so much as of magic 620

This incipient philosophy as Gaulish druidism 622

The Gauls not all of one and the same beliefs 623

The name and the man 624

Enw, 'name,' and the idea of breathing 625

The exact nature of the association still obscure 627

The Celts not distinguishing between names and

things 628

A Celt's name on him, not by him or with him 629

The druid's method of name-giving non-Aryan 631

Magic requiring metrical formulæ 632

The professional man's curse producing blisters 632

A natural phenomenon arguing a thin-skinned race 633

Cursing of no avail without the victim's name 635

Magic and kingship linked in the female line 636

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