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The Fairy-Belt.--'I heard of an apprentice to carpentry who was working with his master at the building of a boat, a little distance from his house, and near the sea
Read record →To the north and south in the golden glow of a September twilight we saw the long line of the Outer Hebrides like the rocky backbone of some submerged continent
Read record →And, as we ate, we talked first about our hard climb in the darkness across the mountains, and through the thick heather-bushes, and then about the big rock which has a key-hole in it, for it contains a secret entrance to a fairy palace
Read record →The question was now asked whether the fairies were anything like the dead, and Marian hesitated about answering
Read record →pbell of Islay, say that his father knew a woman in the neighbourhood who was in a hurry to have her stock of wool spun and made into cloth, and one night this woman secretly wished to have some women to help her
Read record →She thereupon requested him to tell her what the matter might be
Read record →Abduction of a Bridegroom.--'I have heard it from old people that a couple, newly married, were on their way to the home of the bride's father, and for some unknown reason the groom fell behind the procession, and seeing a fairy-dwelling open along the road wa
Read record →eard us discussing the nature and powers of fairies, and at the end of this account he volunteered, without our asking for it, an opinion of his own:--'This (the story just told by him) leads me to believe that the spirit and body [of a mortal] are somehow mys
Read record →The following material, so truly Celtic in its word-colour and in the profound note of sadness and lamentation dominating it, may very appropriately conclude our examination of the Fairy-Faith of Scotland, by giving us some insight into the mind of the Scotch
Read record →'"I have never seen a man fairy nor a woman fairy, but my mother saw a troop of them
Read record →It seems to me that no one of the various theories so far advanced accounts in itself for the Fairy-Faith
Read record →Some persons are certainly more susceptible than others to these unknown forces
Read record →Samuel Leece, then happened to be; and going there through the snow-drifts, I found him with his son and the family within
Read record →Under 'Fairy' Control.--'About fifty years ago,' said Mr
Read record →The Fairy Dog.--'This used to happen about one hundred years ago, as my mother has told me:--Where my grandfather John Watterson was reared, just over near Kerroo Kiel (Narrow Quarter), all the family were sometimes sitting in the house of a cold winter night,
Read record →At Ballasalla I was fortunate enough to meet one of the most interesting of its older inhabitants, John Davies, a Celtic medicine-man, who can cure most obstinate maladies in men or animals with secret herbs, and who knows very much about witchcraft and the ch
Read record →Mickleby and the Fairy Woman.--'A man named Mickleby was coming from Derbyhaven at night, when by a certain stream he met two ladies
Read record →The Manx Fairy-Faith.--'Among the old people of this parish there is still a belief in fairies
Read record →A Fairy-Baking.--'At night the fairies came into a house in Glen Rushen to bake
Read record →Nelson told a story about a Buggane or Fenodyree, such as we already have, and explained the Glashtin as a water-bull, supposed to be a goblin half cow and half horse, and then offered this tradition about Manannan:--'It is said that Manannan was a great magic
Read record →The Manx Fairy-Faith.--'I have much evidence from old Manx people, who are entirely reliable and God-fearing, that they have seen the fairies hunting with hounds and horses, and on the sea in ships, and under other conditions, and that they have heard their mu
Read record →As this strange feeling came over me, I saw coming up the road four figures as real to look upon as human beings, and of medium size, though I am certain they were not human
Read record →(3) A man catches a fairy woman and marries her
Read record →(5) There is a widespread story of the fairy husband procuring for his wife the attendance of a human midwife
Read record →Fairy Midwife and Magic Oil.--'The Tylwyth Teg had a kind of magic oil, and I remember this story about it:--A farmer went to Llangefni to fetch a woman to nurse his wife about to become a mother, and he found one of the Tylwyth Teg, who came with him on the b
Read record →'Tylwyth Teg' Apparition.--'I was coming home at about half-past ten at night from Cemaes, on the path to Simdda Wen, where I was in service, when there appeared just before me a very pretty young lady of ordinary size
Read record →Jones's Vision.--'William Jones, who some sixty years ago declared he had seen the Tylwyth Teg in the Aberglaslyn Pass near Beddgelert, was publicly questioned about them in Bethel Chapel by Mr
Read record →Fairy Cows and Fairy Lake-Women.--'Some of the Tylwyth Teg lived in caves; others of them lived in lake-bottoms
Read record →'Tylwyth Teg.'--'The Tylwyth Teg were considered a very small people, fond of dancing, especially on moonlight nights
Read record →'Tylwyth Teg' Divination.--The second narrative I quote:--'A farmer of this neighbourhood having lost his cattle, went to consult y dyn hysbys (a diviner), in Cardiganshire, who was friendly with the fairies
Read record →When a Paidi (agriculturists and weavers in Ganjam) is seriously ill, a male or female sorcerer (bejjo or bejjano) is consulted
Read record →Deaths from drowning are not unknown in Madras at times of eclipse, when Hindus bathe in the sea, and get washed away by the surf
Read record →They all recovered, but the wife was laid up with some uterine disorder
Read record →The fall of a lizard on different parts of the body is often taken as an omen for good or evil, according as it alights on the right or left side, hand or foot, head or shoulders
Read record →In the Vizagapatam district, a ballad is sung by the Dasaris (a mendicant caste) about the goddess Yerakamma, who is reputed to have been the child of Dasari parents, and to have had the possession of second sight foretold by a Yerukala fortune-teller
Read record →The objection which a high caste Brahman has to being seen by a low caste man when he is eating his food is based on a belief allied to that of the evil eye
Read record →In this way, great merit is supposed to be obtained
Read record →ay, and there prayed to the gods for protection; that thereupon the earth around was miraculously cooled down, and hence the name mun-l-ari-l-sala, the place where the earth was cooled
Read record →These were in some way connected with the vow
Read record →When she returned to the bank of the river, and tried to form her water-pot out of sand as usual, she could not do so, for her admiration of Indra had ruined her power, and she went home sadly to fetch a brass water-vessel
Read record →In Malabar, a Brahman magician transfers the spirits of those who have died an unnatural death to images made of gold, silver, or wood, which are placed in a temple or special building erected for them
Read record →es in which a European, who, having been trained by a guru, was well versed in the theory and practice of native magic, was called in to administer to Natives, who were under the spell of devils
Read record →"The charm consists of eighty-one squares, nine each way, within a border of tridents
Read record →It is recorded [235] by Mr Logan that "in 1877, a poor Mappilla (Muhammadan) woman residing in one of the Laccadive islands was put upon her trial for witchcraft for importing into the island a betel leaf with a certain cabalistic and magical inscription on it
Read record →A horn-vendor, whom I interviewed, assured me that the possessor of a horn is a small jackal, which comes out of its hiding-place on full-moon nights to drink the dew
Read record →In a case which was tried before a magistrate in Travancore, the accused, in order to win his case, had concealed in his under-cloth some yantrams, which had been prepared for him by a sorcerer
Read record →The price is paid indifferently in brass utensils, cattle, or coin
Read record →A copper-plate grant, acquired a few years ago at Tirupati, and believed to be a forgery, records that a temple car was made for the goddess Kalikadevi of Conjeeveram by certain Panchalans (members of the artisan classes)
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