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Thursday, August 31, 2017

Celtic Surnames Came from Clan totems or Leaders

Fun Trivia: The cat is very important in Ancient Northern European culture and tales. Many last names come from cat as their ancient tribes totem. MacNeishe, MacBain, MacIntosh and MacNicol all had the cat as their totem, may have been septs of a tribal whole at one time. Scots were involved with the Picts and there was one tribe of Picts called Kati. Caithness and Sutherland was known as cat country. A famous Bard Talc, son of Trone was known as the cat-headed Chief. His battle garb was that of a cat skin with its head on his helmet. That tribes warriors all wore cat heads.  


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