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anglaedha ?io sinnaigh, ocus eamnait a ngotha na fendoga, i.e. " gudomain, 

 i. e. scald-crows, or fairy women ; ut est gladhomuin goa, the false 

 demons, the mor-rigna; or it is false that the bansigaidhe are not demons ; 

 it is false that the fendoga (scald-crows) are not hellish but aery demons: 

 the foxes double their cries, but the fennoga double their sounds." To 

 understand this curious gloss it is necessary to add that in a previous 

 one the word glaidomuin is explained as signifying sinnaig, or mate tire 

 (foxes or wolves), because in barking they double the sound ; glaidomuin 

 being understood by the glossarist as glaid-emain, i. e. "double call," 

 from glaid, "call," and'ewam, "double;" while the crow only doubles 

 the sound, guth-emain, "double sound." 



Let us take leave of these etymological quibbles, and examine the 

 historical character of the badb, as pourtrayed in the materials still re- 

 maining to us. 



As mostly all the supernatural beings alluded to in Irish fairy lore 

 are referred to the Tuatha-de-Danaans, the older copies of the Lebar 

 Gabhala, or " Book of Occupation," that preserved in the ' ' Book of Lein- 

 ster," for instance, specifies Badb, Macha, and Anand, or Ana (from the 

 latter of whom are named the mountains called da cich Anand, or the 

 Paps, in Kerry), as the daughters of Ernmas, one of the chiefs of tbat 

 mythical colony. Badb ocus Macha ocus Anand, diatat cichi Anand il- 

 Zuachair, tri ingena Ernbais, na ban tuathige ; " Badb, and Macha, and 

 Anand, from whom the ' paps of Anand ' in Luachair are [called], the 

 three daughters of Ernbas, the sinister women."* In an accompanying 

 versification of the same statement the name of Ana, however, is repre- 

 sented by that of Morrigu or Morrigan : — 



"Badb is Macha met indbdis 

 Morrigan fotla felbdis, 

 Indlema ind dga ernbais, 

 Ingena ana Emmais"\ 



"Badb and Macha, rich the store,, 

 Morrigan who dispenses valour, 

 Compassers of death by the sword, 

 Noble daughters of Emmas." 



It is important to observe that Morrigan is here identified with 

 Anand, or Ana (for Anand is the gen. form) ; and in Cormac's Glossary 

 Ana is described as "Mater deorum Hibernensium ; robu maith din 

 rosbiathadsi na dee (de cujus nomine da cich Anainne iar Luachair 

 nominantur ut fertur j" i. e., "Mater deorum Hibernensium well she 

 used to nourish the gods (de cujus nomine the ' two paps of Ana ' in 

 west Luachair are named.") Under the word Buanand the statement 

 is more briefly repeated. The historian Keating enumerates Badb, 



* " Book of Leinster," fol. 5, a 2. 



f lb., fol. 5, b 2. 



