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Mog Ruith
Legendary Irish magician from Munster, who was linked in Ireland to biblical and apocryphal traditions, notably as a pupil under Simon Magus and as one responsible for the beheading of John the Baptist. He appears in Irish genealogies as a descendant of Medb and her lover Fergus mac Roích and as an ancestor for Fir Maige Féine, in the area about present-day Fermoy.
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O'Leary, Aideen M., “Mog Ruith and apocalypticism in eleventh-century Ireland”, in: Nagy, Joseph Falaky [ed.], The individual in Celtic literatures, CSANA Yearbook 1, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001. 51–60.
Ferreiro, Alberto, “Simon Magus and Simon Peter in medieval Irish and English legends”, in: Ferreiro, Alberto, Simon Magus in patristic, medieval and early modern traditions, Studies in the History of Christian Traditions Series 125, Leiden: Brill, 2005. xii + 372 pp. 201–220.
Carey, John, “An Old Irish poem about Mug Ruith”, Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 110 (2005): 113–134.
Griffin-Wilson, Margo, “Mythical and local landscapes: Dáibhí Ó Bruadair’s Iomdha sgéimh ar chur na cluana”, Celtica 25 (2007): 40–60.
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