Survivals in Belief Among the Celts

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He has the faculty of foreseeing the approach of death in his own case and in that of others. One day, while dictating his visions to his son, a poor woman entered, and she was scornfully rebuked by the busy scribe. "List to her, " quoth Brian, " for some of thine own bodily members will perish seven years before thyself. " And true this proved to be, for the son lost a finger which was buried in earth. But when this fore- warning was foretold to Brian's son, he angrily cast the prophetic recor...d into the fire. The first portion had already been thrown into a pool, and thus the written prophecies of Brian perished. Naturally, what survives has come down by word of mouth, and forms the subject of fireside entertainments in West Ireland, in the discourses of William Fleming in Leth-ardan ; of Seamus Mac Enri, Inish Bigil ; of Seaghan O Conway, Dubh- Thuma ; all of which is duly recorded in Michael Timony's narrative. The story of the loss of the written prophecy is similar to a tale told me at Loch Arkaig of how Ossian's works and the history of the Feinne have for the most part perished, having been cast into the fire in his anger by St.

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