Page:Folk-lore - A Quarterly Review. Volume 1, 1890.djvu/266

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Celtic Myth and Saga.

his article on “Recent Research on Teutonic Mythology” (ante, p. 126): “It is not true that Teutonic heathendom is permeated by Latino-Greek or Judæo-Christian thought . . . the good old mythology and ritual went on as old wives’ fables and charms many a century after, and survive in the fairy tales and superstitious observances of to-day.” I believe the position to be as true in the Celtic as in the Teutonic field, and that it can only be strengthened by further research.