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