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A remscéla of the Táin that might come from the 12th century mentions that Medb and Ailills Druids try to tell how the battle will go by making a sacrifice to Osirus and classical deities.

The story is called "the battle of findchorad."

'They offered sacrifices to Mars, to Osiris (?), to Jove and to Apollo. These are the sacrifices they offered: the flesh of dogs, pigs and cats'

Did those deities and the ritual get into the story because the remscéla draws from oral stories or lost manuscripts on paganism? Or could it be a more contempory authority on paganism to the scribe like Augustine of Hippo and his book 'the city of god' because it mentions osirus.

Whilst all folkcrafts can be called piseogry since theyre superstitions. House blessings, cures, and gifts are separate to a form of cursing only called piseog bags.

A 10-10-20 fertiliser bag with sticks, flowers, and ribbon hung from a tree at someones gate. Could drag them into misery, and poverty. Only priests can destroy them. But could its actual function be a traditional way of airing a grievance publically so it doesnt silently fester and get violent?

If people see a piseog bag they know someones broken a traditional tabu, and theres a bad problem. So they talk about it and the public discussion brings everything out in the wash. Where who is in the right and what should be done turns into public opinion.

We funnel tourists out to an abandoned cottage in feakle to see where Biddy Early lived. But whilst the plague of tourism exists did people like Biddy Early, Máire Ní Mhuirchu etc exist or is it old school rationalism?

How much of the second recension of the Táin is influenced by Virgils Aeneid?

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Theres an Irish translation of the Aeneid in the manuscript that it comes from. So we know Aed Ua Crimthann had a very detailed understanding of the Aeneid.

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When he expanded and edited the Táin he illustrated his understanding for his readership by comparing characters. For example, the Morrigan is called the Morrigan Alecto and in his version of the Aeneid Alecto is called Alecto badb.