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