The Fairy Mythology, Volume 2W. H. Ainsworth, 1828 - Fairy tales |
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... popular creed , but the Dwarfs still retain their former dominion . Unlike those of the North , they have put off their heathen character , and , with their human neighbours , have embraced a purer faith . With the creed they seem to ...
... popular creed , but the Dwarfs still retain their former dominion . Unlike those of the North , they have put off their heathen character , and , with their human neighbours , have embraced a purer faith . With the creed they seem to ...
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... , and of combats and war . " We shall divide the objects of German popular belief at the present day into four classes : - 1. Dwarfs ; 2. Wild women ; 3. Kobolds ; 4. Nixes . DWARFS . Fort , fort ! Mich schau ' die GERMANY . 15.
... , and of combats and war . " We shall divide the objects of German popular belief at the present day into four classes : - 1. Dwarfs ; 2. Wild women ; 3. Kobolds ; 4. Nixes . DWARFS . Fort , fort ! Mich schau ' die GERMANY . 15.
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... popular idea re- specting them * . At Plessè , a castle in the mountains in Hesse , are various springs , wells , clefts , and holes in the rocks , in which , according to popular tradition , the Dwarfs , called the Still - people ...
... popular idea re- specting them * . At Plessè , a castle in the mountains in Hesse , are various springs , wells , clefts , and holes in the rocks , in which , according to popular tradition , the Dwarfs , called the Still - people ...
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... popular faith . It is almost always ascribed to the fault of mankind - sometimes to their wickedness . " We may in these tales recognize the box of Pandora under a different form , but the ground is the same . Curiosity and wickedness ...
... popular faith . It is almost always ascribed to the fault of mankind - sometimes to their wickedness . " We may in these tales recognize the box of Pandora under a different form , but the ground is the same . Curiosity and wickedness ...
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... popular belief on this subject : " Another part of this ( winter's evening ) con- versation generally turns upon Fairies . These , they tell you , have frequently been seen and heard ; nay , that there are some still living who were ...
... popular belief on this subject : " Another part of this ( winter's evening ) con- versation generally turns upon Fairies . These , they tell you , have frequently been seen and heard ; nay , that there are some still living who were ...
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appear asked beautiful began believe bird bread Breton Breton Lais Brownie Cabeiri called castle Celts child cried dance daughter death Demogorgon door Drac dragon drink Dwarfs Elberich elves eyes Faerie fair FAIRY MYTHOLOGY Fairy-queen Fata father favour Fées Gagliuso gave Gervase of Tilbury give Gobelin gold Gothic green hair hand hath heard hill Hinzelmann house-spirit Hudemühlen husband Jocastus king Kobold lady Lanval Leprechauns lived look lord Madame D'Aulnoy maid maiden Marie de France married Masaniello Mazikeen Melusine mistress Miuccio Moohel Mopsus morning mother mountains never night Nymphs Oberon Otnit palace poets Portiella prince Puck quath queen Renzolla replied rich round says seen sing spirit stone story tale tell thee thing thou wilt told took unto Vila Wichtlein wife Wild-women woman words Wunderberg Wyss young Yumbos
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Page 135 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : % And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 126 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours: I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Page 134 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid. Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut , Made by the joiner squirrel , or old grub , Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Page 135 - By moonshine do the green-sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid, — Weak masters though ye be, — I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the...
Page 134 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams...
Page 150 - This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, Still walking like a ragged colt, And oft out of a bush doth bolt, Of purpose to deceive us ; And, leading us, makes us to stray, Long winters nights out of the way, And when we stick in mire and clay, He doth with laughter leave us.
Page 128 - I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine. With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine : There sleeps Titania some time of the night, Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight...
Page 128 - These are the forgeries of jealousy : And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain, or by rushy brook, Or on the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
Page 154 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 134 - ... soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab That plats the manes of horses in the night, And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs, Which once untangled much misfortune bodes...