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Mythological Notes. 20
The story told by Giraldus Cambrensis Top. Hib. Dlst., 2. c. 19, of
the man and woman transformed into wolves every seven years is too
well known to be cited hère.
Irish name for a female werwolf is conoel. Conoel .i. ben tet a
\conrecht (a woman that goes into wolfshape)^ H. 2. 16, col. 98. In
'h. 3. 18, p. 654, col. 3, there is a similar gloss : Conel .i. ben îéit i
'cùdnricht (a woman that goes into the form of a little hound). Does
ithis indicate a belief in kynanthropy ? as to which sec Schott. Walla-
\chische Màrchen, s. 298.
j Rev.
Celtique, i. 259, line 24, ajter velle insert: the name Êsus would
'thus be cognate with Skr. eshà, Zend aêsha, Gr. aTaa « wish, » Sabine
''aiso-s « prayer, » and other words cited by Fick, vergl.Wœrterbuch, 26.
' Ihid.,
line 51. Adi: And see Muir, Sanskrit Texts, V, 403, as to the
Iprocess by which Kâma (« Désire ») came to be regarded as a deity.
I Ibid., after line 34, insert: Another Irish godname is Dess, which
bccurs in the Tochmarc Emere (Wooing of Emer) Lebor na huidre,
'p. 122!'.
' Tocbaid
emer agnùis càim cx\.\t[h}aig inarda 7 dobreth aichni forcoincu-
("ainn conid and aide asbert.
\ Dess
(.i. deus] imrlada* duib (.i. dia doredigud duib) orsi.
^ Sldn imreisc duibsi (.i. ropslan sibsi ôcachaisc) oleseom.
« Emer upraised her fair and shapely face, and recognized Cûchulainn,
10 then she said.
« May Dess (« god ») make smooth [the way] foryou ! » quoth she.
« Whole from hurt be you ! » says he.
Irish phonetics will allow dess to be equated either with the Indian
Msha or with the Greek OscrTéç (lat. festus) in TroAùOsaxoç,
Rev. ' Celtique, \. 281, 'Man octipartite.' See a translation of a Welsh
'ersion of this myth, Meddygon Myddfai, 1861, pref. XIV, where it is
ttributed to Taliesin !
Corrigendum. Rev. Celtique, i. p. 260, 1. 34, for « after, » read
because of, » diag \s=dég, Z - 707.
Whitley Stokes.
* The fac-similé published by the Royal Irish Academy has imriadam.
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