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By W.Y. Evans Wentz, Terrance McKenna
First released in 1911, the vintage e-book at the luminous truth of leprechauns, pixies, and different fairy spirits What are fairies, these romantic and occasionally mischievous little people--pixies, nixies, elves, fauns, cakes, dwarfs, leprechauns, and all different kinds of the daoine sidhe (fairy people)? Are they genuine? Folklorists say they're fragments of historical non secular ideals; occultists name them nature spirits; the peasant culture says they're fallen angels who weren't more than enough to be stored or undesirable adequate to be misplaced. In his definitive research, W.Y. Evans-Wentz, the well known translator of The Tibetan booklet of the lifeless, unveils the mystic and mysterious folklore of the entire Celtic countries. This booklet offers a physique of culture of and testimony approximately an elusive order of lifestyles that survives within the ordinary environment of untamed and lonely locations. now not happy with purely formal learn, Evans-Wentz accumulated firsthand reviews of fairies in Wales, eire, Scotland, and Brittany and sought to reply to the most important questions shunned by means of different folklorists. A vintage within the box of Celtic experiences, The Fairy religion in Celtic nations provides proof for residing fairy religion that Dr. Wentz accumulated in his travels; examines the recorded tales of fairies in vintage works just like the Welsh Mabinogion, and the Irish Tuatha de Danann, in addition to Arthurian legends; explores trust in fairies; and stories the fairy religion in gentle of technology. A compassionate, energetic, and seminal exploration of a wealthy and luminous global, this is often an remarkable addition to the sector of Celtic reports.
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Ocean's eternally murmuring sounds set up a responsive vibration in the soul of the peasant, as be in solitude drives home his flocks amid the weird gloaming at the end of a December day; and, later, when he sits brooding in his humble cottage at night, in the fitful flickering of a peat fire, he has a mystic consciousness that deep down in his being there is a more divine music compared with which that of external nature is but a symbol and an echo; and, as he stirs the glowing peat-embers, phantoms from an irretrievable past seem to be sitting with him on the edge of the half-circle of dying light.
Like the Isle of Man, from the earliest ages Cornwall has been a meeting-place and a battle-ground for contending races. The primitive dark Iberian peoples gave way before Aryan-Celtic invaders, and these to Roman and then to Germanic invaders. Nature has been kind to the whole of Cornwall, but chiefly upon the peninsula whose ancient capital is Penzance (which possibly means 'the Holy Headland'), and upon the land immediately eastward and northward of it, she has bestowed her rarest gifts. Holding this territory embosomed in the pure waters of Ocean, and breathing over it the pure air of the Atlantic in spring and in summer calm, when the warm vapours from the Gulf Stream sweep over it freely, and make it a land of flowers and of singing-birds, Nature preserves eternally its beauty and its sanctity.
By this prehistoric monument and in the country round the old Nevern Church, three miles away, there is an active belief in the 'fair-folk', in ghosts, in death-warnings, in death-candles and phantom-funerals, and in witchcraft and black magic. Thence on to Newcastle-Emlyn and its valley, where many of the Mabinogion stories took form, or at least from where they drew rich material in the way of folk-lore,[7] are environments purely Welsh and as yet little disturbed by the commercial materialism of the age.