Various pagan cults, which also came to be more or less Christianized, have been considered under Paganism; and in this chapter we propose to examine the famous Purgatory of St. Patrick and the Christian rites in honour of the dead.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
And this evidence which is already set forth shows that the origin of worship paid to sacred wells, fountains, lakes, or rivers, is to be found in the religious practices of the Celts before they became Christianized.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
Celtic myth and mysticism, wherein may yet be read the deepest secrets of life and death, supplied names and legends to fill out a Christianized scheme of Irish chronology, which was made to begin some six thousand years ago with Adam.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz