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This book gives lively retellings of the Celtic myths of Ireland, Wales and Brittany, each followed by a detailed commentary suggesting interpretations of these myths in terms of their symbolism and its relation to the human psyche. It draws on the work of Joseph Campbell, and C. J. Jung's concept of the collective unconscious and its archetypes, underlining the extraordinary connections between myths worldwide. These connections seem to be too far-reaching to be explicable merely by migration and cultural exchange through trade.