Section I. The Living Fairy Faith. Chapter. Part 05 : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], p. 117 IV. IN THE ISLE OF MAN Introduction by SOPHIA MORRISON, Hon. Secretary of the Manx Language Society. The Manx hierarchy of fairy beings people hills and glens, caves and rivers, mounds and roads; and their name is legi...
Section I. The Living Fairy Faith. Chapter. Part 08 : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], p. 17 SECTION I THE LIVING FAIRY FAITH CHAPTER II TAKING OF EVIDENCE 'During all these centuries the Celt has kept in his heart some affinity with the mighty beings ruling in the Unseen, once so evident to the heroic races who...
Section I. The Living Fairy Faith. Chapter. Part 04 : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], V. IN WALES Introduction by The Right Hon. SIR JOHN RHY^S, M.A.; D.Litt., F.B.A., Hon. LL.D. of the University of Edinburgh; Professor of Celtic in the University of Oxford; Principal of Jesus College; author of "Celtic Folklore...
Introduction : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], p. x There, neither turmoil nor silence... 'Though fair the sight of Erin's plains, hardly will they seem so after you have known the Great Plain... 'A wonder of a land the land of which I speak; no youth there grows to old age...
Dedication : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], p. iii THIS BOOK DEPENDS CHIEFLY UPON THE ORAL AND WRITTEN TESTIMONY SO FREELY CONTRIBUTED BY ITS MANY CELTIC AUTHORS,-- THE PEASANT AND THE SCHOLAR, THE PRIEST AND THE SCIENTIST, THE POET AND THE BUSINESS MAN, THE SEER...
The Recorded Fairy Faith. Chapter V. Brythonic : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], p. 308 SECTION II THE RECORDED FAIRY-FAITH CHAPTER V BRYTHONIC DIVINITIES AND THE BRYTHONIC FAIRY-FAITH 1 'On the one hand we have the man Arthur, whose position we have tried to define, and on the other a greater Arthur, a more...
Section Iv. Modern Science And The Fairy. Part 02 : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], p. 456 SECTION IV MODERN SCIENCE AND THE FAIRY FAITH; AND CONCLUSIONS 1 CHAPTER XI SCIENCE AND FAIRIES Puzzling and weird occurrences have been vouched for among all nations and in every age. It is possible to relegate a good...
Section I. The Living Fairy Faith. Chapter. Part 02 : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], VII. IN BRITTANY Introduction by ANATOLE LE BRAZ, Professor of French Literature, University of Rennes, Brittany; author of "La Lgende de la Mort", "Au Pays des Pardons", &c. ("Note": Translation in this footnote: 1 --John Bruno...
Section I. The Living Fairy Faith. Chapter : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], p. 226 SECTION I THE LIVING FAIRY FAITH CHAPTER III AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF THE EVIDENCE Anthropology is concerned with man and what is in man--"humani nihil a se alienum putat".--ANDREW LANG. The Celtic Fairy-Faith...
Section Iii. The Cult Of Gods, Spirits, Fairies. Part 03 : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], p. 397 SECTION III THE CULT OF GODS, SPIRITS FAIRIES, AND THE DEAD CHAPTER VIII THE TESTIMONY OF ARCHAEOLOGY 1 'As he spoke, he paused before a great mound grown over with trees, and around it silver clear in the moonlight were...
Section I. The Living Fairy Faith. Chapter. Part 06 : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], III. IN SCOTLAND Introduction by ALEXANDER CARMICHAEL, Hon. LL.D. of the University of Edinburgh; author of "Carmina Gadelica. " The belief in fairies was once common throughout Scotland--Highland and Lowland. It is now much...
Preface : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], p. vii PREFACE DURING the years 1907-9 this study first took shape, being then based mainly on literary sources; and during the latter year it was successfully presented to the Faculty of Letters of the University of Rennes...
Section Iv. Modern Science And The Fairy : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], p. 492 SECTION IV MODERN SCIENCE AND THE FAIRY-FAITH; AND CONCLUSIONS CHAPTER XII THE CELTIC DOCTRINE OF RE-BIRTH AND OTHERWORLD SCIENTIFICALLY EXAMINED 'If all things which partook of life were to die, and after they were dead...
The Recorded Fairy Faith. Chapter Vii : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], p. 358 SECTION II THE RECORDED FAIRY-FAITH CHAPTER VII THE CELTIC DOCTRINE OF REBIRTH 1 'It seems as if Ossian's was a premature return. To-day he might find comrades come back from Tir-na-nog for the uplifting of their race...
The Recorded Fairy Faith. Chapter Iv. People : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], p. 283 SECTION II THE RECORDED FAIRY FAITH CHAPTER IV PEOPLE OF THE GODDESS DANA ("TUATHA D DANANN") OR THE SIDHE (PRONOUNCED "SHEE") 1 'So firm was the hold which the ethnic gods of Ireland had taken upon the imaginati...
Section Iii. The Cult Of Gods, Spirits, Fairies : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], p. 442 SECTION III THE CULT OF GODS, SPIRITS, FAIRIES, AND THE DEAD CHAPTER X THE TESTIMONY OF CHRISTIANITY 'The Purgatory of St. Patrick became the framework of another series of tales, embodying the Celtic ideas concerning...
Section I. The Living Fairy Faith. Chapter. Part 07 : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], p. 23 II. IN IRELAND Introduction by DOUGLAS HYDE, LL.D., D. Litt., M.R.I.A. ("An Craoibhn Aoibhinn")", "President of the Gaelic League; author of "A Literary History of Ireland", &c. Whatever may be thought of the conclusions...
Section Iii. The Cult Of Gods, Spirits, Fairies. Part 02 : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], p. 427 SECTION III THE CULT OF GODS, SPIRITS FAIRIES, AND THE DEAD CHAPTER IX THE TESTIMONY OF PAGANISM 'The cult of forests, of fountains, and of stones is to be explained by that primitive naturalism which all the Church...
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Section I. The Living Fairy Faith. Chapter. Part 03 : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], VI. IN CORNWALL Introduction by HENRY JENNER, Member of the Gorsedd of the Bards of Brittany; Fellow and Local Secretary for Cornwall of the Society of Antiquaries; author of "A Handbook of the Cornish Language", &c. In Cornwall...
Section I. The Living Fairy Faith. Chapter. Part 09 : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], p. 1 SECTION I THE LIVING FAIRY-FAITH CHAPTER I ENVIRONMENT 'In the Beauty of the World lies the ultimate redemption of our mortality. When we shall become at one with nature in a sense profounder even than the poetic imaginings...
The Recorded Fairy Faith. Chapter Vi. Celtic : * "The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries", by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], p. 332 SECTION II THE RECORDED FAIRY-FAITH CHAPTER VI CELTIC OTHERWORLD 1 In Ireland this world and the world we go to after death are not far apart.'--W. B. YEATS. 'Many go to the Tir-na-nog in sleep, and some are said to have...
