Editing Dian Cecht (section)

== Additional appearances ==
In [[Tochmarc Étaíne]], Dian Cecht healed [[Mider]] after the latter lost an eye when struck with a twig of hazel.<ref>''[[Tochmarc Étaíne]].''</ref>

In the St. Gall incantations, there is a spell that mentions Dian Cécht:
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I save the dead-alive. Against eructation, against spear-thong (amentum), against sudden tumour, against bleeding caused by iron, against... which fire burns, against.... which a dog eats, ...that withers: three nuts that... three sinews that weave (?). I strike its disease, I vanquish blood...: let it not be a chronic tumour. Whole be that whereon it (Diancecht's salve) goes. I put my trust in the salve which Diancecht left with his family that whole may be that whereon it goes.<br />

This is laid always in thy palm full of water when washing, and thou puttest it into thy mouth, and thou insertest the two fingers that are next the little-finger into thy mouth, each of them apart.<ref>{{citation|editor-last1=Stokes |editor-first1=Whitley |editor-link1=Whitley Stokes (Celtic scholar) |editor-last2=Strachan |editor-first2=John |editor-link2=John Strachan |title=The St. Gall Incantations |work=Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus |publisher=University Press |year=1903  |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h_k3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA248 |pages=248–249}} {{Via|pre= |text=Full text [https://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/incantations_gall.html here]|Celtic Literature Collective}}<!--Mary Jones@--></ref>

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Dian Cécht's harper and poet was named [[Corann|Corand]].<ref name=metrical-dinnshenchas-ceis-choraind/> According to the Dindsenchas, Corand is implied to be the son of Dian Cecht and summoned a swine called Caelcheis from the Dagda's harp, which the champions of Connacht chased to Magh Coraind.<ref>{{cite web |last1=ed. Stokes |first1=Whitley |title=The Edinburgh Dinnshenchas |url=https://www.ucd.ie/tlh/trans/ws.fl.4.001.t.text.html |website=The Edinburgh Dinnshenchas: An electronic edition |publisher=Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae, University College Dublin |access-date=15 June 2021}}</ref>

An [[early Irish legal]] text on the law of illegal injury,  ''[[Bretha Déin Chécht]]'' ("Judgements of Dian Cécht"), is attributed to Dian Cécht.<ref>{{cite book |last=McLeod |first=Neil |date=2000 |chapter=The Not-So-Exotic Law Of Dian Cecht |editor1-first=G. |editor1-last=Evans |editor2-first=B. |editor2-last=Martin |editor3-first=J. |editor3-last=Wooding |title=Origins and Revivals: Proceedings of the First Australian Conference of Celtic Studies |location=Sydney |publisher=Centre for Celtic Studies University of Sydney |pages=381–399 }}</ref>{{rp|381}} A late-historical preface to the ''[[Senchas Már]]'' details the codification and Christianization of Irish law by [[Saint Patrick]] and his commissioners. Dian Cecht is explicitly listed as among the pre-Christian authors whose judgements were accepted because they did not contradict Christian teaching.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Binchy |first=D. A. |title=Bretha Déin Chécht |journal=Ériu |volume=20 |date=1966 |pages=1–66 |jstor=30008048 }}</ref>{{rp|2}}