R, ruis, the dwarf elder in Ogham. The rochat, or ... - Rodney Mackay

which was tied to his staff; and having done so he applied
the singed hide to the nose of every person and of every
domestic animal belonging to the house. This was imagined
to secure them from diseases and other misfortunes,
particularly from witchcraft, throughout the ensuing year.
The whole ceremony was called "calluinn" because of the
great noise made in beating the hide. It was observed in the
Hebrides, including St. Kilda, down to the second half of the
eighteenth century at least, and it seems to have survived
well into the nineteenth century."
Moncrieffe identifies the old religion with medieval
Scottish witchcraft and says that witchcraft and the dawn
religion had a horned deities as their central figures. This
is understandable when it is recalled that all clansmen
thought of themselves as possessing totem animals, into
which their souls could pass under certain conditions.
These creatures continue to be represented in the heraldry
and on the arms of Scots. The Anglo-Saxons sometimes
thought of Woden as Herne the Hunter, the pursuer of the
souls of dead men, who is represented as antlered deity.
His personality is exactly that of the Celtic earth-god
known as Cernu, either name being defined by the English
words horn and corn.
RIGHAIRLED. The fourteenth king of Ireland in the Milesian
line of Eber and Eremeon. He is credited with introducing
the war-chariot into Gaeldom.
RIGH FHAIDH, royal prophet. A king who is a prophet.
RIGH-NA-COILLE, “king of the forest,” the oak tree.
RIGHINNEACHD, craftiness, artificiality, court-talk, righ,
kingly; neach. something.
RIGH NA GEASAN MOR, the “King of the Great Enchantments,”
the Quarter-Day “king.” Also, a king of the Daoine sidh at
the time of the Milesian invasion of Ireland. See Baldar, etc.