GREAT BRITAIN. ENGLAND. The Green Children 281 The Fairy-Banquet 283 The Fairy-Horn 284 The Portunes 285 The Grant 286 The Luck of Eden Hall 292 The Fairy-Fair 294 The Fairies' Caldron 295 The Cauld Lad of Hilton 296 The Pixy-Labour 301 Pixy-Vengeance 303 Pixy-Gratitude 304 The Fairy-Thieves 305 The Boggart 307 Addlers and Menters 308 The Fary-Nurseling 310 The Fary-Labour 311 Ainsel 313 Puck 314 SCOTTISH LOWLANDS. The Fairies' Nurse 353 The Fairy-Rade 354 The Changeling 355 Departure of the Fairies 356 The Brownie 357
CELTS AND CYMRY. IRELAND. Clever Tom and the Leprechaun 373 The Leprechaun in the Garden 376 The Three Leprechauns 379 The Little Shoe 382 SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS. The Fairy's Inquiry 385 The Young Man in the Shian 386 The two Fiddlers 387 The Fairy-Labour 388 The Fairy borrowing Oatmeal 389 The Fairy-Gift 389 The Stolen Ox 390 The Stolen Lady 391 The Changeling 393 The Wounded Seal 394 The Brownies 395 The Urisk 396 ISLE OF MAN. The Fairy-Chapman 398 The Fairy-Banquet 399 The Fairies' Christening 400 The Fairy-Whipping 400 The Fairy-Hunt 401 The Fiddler and the Fairy 402 The Phynnodderee 402 WALES. Tale of Elidurus 404 The Tylwyth Têg 408 The Spirit of the Van 409 Rhys at the Fairy-Dance 415 Gitto Bach 416 The Fairies banished 417 BRITTANY. Lai D'Ywenec 422 Lord Nann and the Korrigan 433 The Dance and Song of the Korred 438
SOUTHERN EUROPE. GREECE 443 ITALY 447 SPAIN 456 The Daughter of Peter do Cabinam 456 Origin of the House of Haro 458 La Infantina 459 Pepito el Corcovado 461 FRANCE. Legend of Melusina 480
EASTERN EUROPE. FINNS 487 SLAVES 490 Vilas 492 Deer and Vila 493
AFRICANS, JEWS, AFRICANS 495 JEWS 497 The Broken Oaths 498 The Moohel 506 The Mazik-Ass 510
In oldè dayès of the King Artoúr, Of which that Bretons spoken gret honoúr, All was this lond fulfilled of faërie; The elf-qrene with hir jolie companie Danced full oft in many a grenè mede. CHAUCER.
According to a well-known law of our nature, effects suggest causes; and another law, perhaps equally general, impels us to ascribe to the actual and efficient cause the attribute of intelligence. The mind of the deepest philosopher is thus acted upon equally with that of the peasant or the savage; the only difference lies in the nature of the intelligent cause at which they respectively stop. The one pursues the chain of cause and effect, and traces out its various links till he arrives at the great intelligent cause of all, however he may designate him; the other, when unusual phenomena excite his attention, ascribes their production to the immediate agency of some of the inferior beings recognised by his legendary creed.
