“ Every moment of the nightForever changing placesAnd they put out the star-lightWith the breath from their pale faces Edgar Allan Poe
“ On the conversion of the European tribes to Christianity the ancient pagan worship was by no means incontinently abandoned. So wholesale had been the conversion of many peoples, whose chiefs or rulers… Lewis Spence
“ At Bealltainn, or May Day, every effort was made to scare away the fairies, who were particularly dreaded at this season. In the West Highlands charms were used to avert their influence. In the Isle o… Lewis Spence