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The Perth Incident of 1396: From a Folk-Lore Point of View. E-book. Formato PDF Robert Craig Maclagan - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
"History" of the uneducated is neither better nor worse than "Folk-lore." Education is a matter of comparison. There is a natural credulity in man which accepts anything stated "on authority," and this, in religion, is a part of the national life. If you want anything believed, speak as if you knew it was a fact. It may be repeated for so many years that it may take some courage to doubt, let alone deny. In the present case, proposing to study the origin of two clan names, much that will be said will be in very marked opposition to what is commonly believed, and will, no doubt, in many cases be treated as heretical, and even possibly as absurd. The writer is no philologist: he desires to be an interpreter of folk-lore, and believing that all folk-lore has some kernel of fact, and is not mere fancy, it is of this kernel he is in search.
Our Ancestors: Scots, Picts,& Cymry, and What Their Traditions Tell Us. E-book. Formato PDF Robert Craig Maclagan - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
According TO their earliest records, the Picts of the British Isles claim a Thracian origin. Herodotus tells that the nobles of the Agathyrsi tat tooed themselves, and the claim of the Picts to be Agathyrsi is on record, and shows their acquaintance with Thracian tradition. Orpheus, the bard who made trees to dance to his music, was a Thracian, and early Irish story says that the children of Nemed (nemet, a grove were almost the earliest invaders of Ireland. A dancing grove can only apply to those worshippers who frequented such localities. The Cotytto of Milton's C omus was a Thracian di vinity celebrated with riotous proceedings in festivals called Cotyttia. Cotus was the name of a series of Thracian kings extending from a period 382 years to the time of Hadrian ad. 76. Strabo (63 mentions the Thracian mysteries of Cotytto and Ben dis (artemis), and at the same time speaks of Cotys as a local deity whose worship was accompanied with noise. Suidas (roth century ad.) tells that Cotus was a Corinthian divinity, and quotes Synesius, who speaks of the troupe (04040471051) of Cotus as unchaste. We conclude with certainty that Cotus (masculine) and Cotytto (feminine) are expressions for the male and female of an androgynous divinity; but the Cot yttia applied to them as hermaphrodite.
Scottish Myths: Notes on Scottish History and Tradition. E-book. Formato PDF Robert Craig Maclagan - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
He then resolved to make an attempt on Mona Anglesea; but, being unprovided with transport, he attacked it in the following manner. A select body of auxiliaries, disencumbered of their baggage, who were well acquainted with the fords, and accustomed, after the manner of their country, to direct their horses and manage their arms while swimming, were ordered suddenly to plunge into the channel.