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Smiths and other craftsmen enjoy a high regard, a reverence, even a sense of awe for their apparently magical powers, in many pre-technological societies. For the observer without a knowledge of elementary physics, the sight of a man who can yield a stream of brilliant liquid metal from the firing of a certain rough rock evokes a practical wizardry.
Such a command is called in Irish a geís (pl. gessa), an idiosyncratic form of taboo found widely in early Irish literature. The unfortunate person receiving the geis may have done nothing to merit such a burden, and the person or forces applying it may appear wilful or capricious. Yet the geis is not to be escaped. To violate it is to risk death or catastrophe for one’s entire family.
By agreement, the immortal Tuatha Dé leave the upper part of the earth to the mortal Gaelic people and their progeny, while they themselves descend beneath the surface to dwell in the ancient barrows and cairns so numerous in the landscape. The main route to their realm is the sídh, the distinctive circular-topped mounds still commonly found in Ireland. Under its different spellings, sídh becomes the nickname for their otherworld. This disposal of the Tuatha Dé was attractive to the Christian clergy because it explained the perennial association of ancient monuments and the spirit world while also demoting the Tuatha Dé to near-demon status.
Long cited in the French school curriculum as the first national hero, Vercingetorix’s struggle is so widely known to most French people that it has inspired a long-running comic strip, Asterix the Gaul.
When referring to themselves the several Celts often used terms incorporating the phoneme gal-, as in Gallia (Gaul), Galatia, Galicia (regions of both Spain and Poland) and Portugal.