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304 -Folklore and History in Ireland.
of the folk, the outcome of the thought and events of the moment, and like all fashions fugitive. They are mainly concerned with mutable matters of form and ceremony, but of no vital import, while the indigenous growth survives in the more private but more essential acts and beliefs. The persistencies are to be found connected with such immutable matters as life and death, birth and marriage.
D. H. MouTRAY Read.
