PREFACE
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Rhys, John, Sir
CELTIC FOLKLORE
J. RHŶS
HENRY FROWDE, M.A.
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK
CELTIC FOLKLORE
WELSH AND MANX
BY JOHN RHŶS, M.A., D.Litt. HON. LL.D. OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH PROFESSOR OF CELTIC PRINCIPAL OF JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD
VOLUME I OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS MDCCCCI
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Our modern idioms, with all their straining after the abstract, are but primitive man’s mental tools adapted to the requirements of civilized life, and they often retain traces of the form and shape which the neolithic worker’s chipping and polishing gave them.