Foreword: Readings from Rocks, Teachings from Trees | p. 5 |
Introduction: Seeing the Truth, Speaking the Truth: The Vatic Tradition among the Celts | p. 8 |
Vision and Seership: The Druids and the Bards | p. 19 |
Precognitive Dreams in Celtic Legend | p. 27 |
Prognostication from the Raven and the Wren | p. 43 |
Imbas Forosnai | p. 46 |
The Thumb of Knowledge | p. 68 |
The Voice of the Stone of Destiny | p. 89 |
Augury, Dream and Prophecy | p. 106 |
The Silver Bough in Irish Legend | p. 117 |
Illumination | p. 125 |
The Spells of Women | p. 136 |
The Dark Speech: Ogham and the Bards | p. 149 |
On the Ogham Characters | p. 156 |
The Ancient Ogham Treatises | p. 175 |
Ogham | p. 198 |
The Origins of the Ogham Alphabet | p. 221 |
Poetry and Prophecy: Visions of the Dream | p. 225 |
Vaticination in Wales Prior to the Twelfth Century | p. 229 |
Armes Prydein ('Prophecy of Britain') attributed to Myrddin | p. 251 |
Vita Merlini | p. 254 |
The Prophecies of Merlin | p. 260 |
The Poems of Suibhne Geilt | p. 267 |
The Vision of MacConglinne | p. 281 |
The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer | p. 288 |
Prophecy and Divination | p. 300 |
Further Reading | p. 314 |
Index | p. 318 |
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