Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Fairies and witches

Temple of Seti,1872
Margaret Alice Murray in her 1921 text The Witch-Cult of Western Europe describes practices by the hypothesized dwarf race of ancient Europe wherein devotees congregated in the forests and "when he is disposed to vse, hee speaketh with them vpon hyls, where as there is great heapes of earth, as namely in Dorsetshire. And betwene the houres of xii. and one at noone, or at midnight he vseth them. Whereof (he sayth) the blacke Feries be the woorst.[1566. John Walsh of Netherberry, Dorset]  

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