[131] "Scottish Dictionary," s. v. Fane.
[132] See the "Revue des Traditions populaires," Nov. 1889, p. 613. The reader is there referred to M. Paul Sébillot's "Contes populaires de la Haute-Bretagne" for those Fions; and also to Bézier's "Inventaire des monuments mégalithiques de l'Ille-et-Vilaine," (p. 26) for certain Feins, who seem very likely to be the same people.
[133] "Revue des Traditions populaires," Oct. 1889, pp. 515-519.
[134] These "Christian" fairies appear to be remembered as women; like the banshee or fairy woman of Ireland and Gaelic-Scotland.
[135] Another illustration of these special features is afforded by the church at Eckwadt, in Denmark, which is said to have been built by a "hill-man," or dwarf. In this case, also, the last stone was not put on. Of this builder, too, it is stated that "he worked only during the night."—(Thorpe's Northern Mythology, III. 38-39).
[136] In this mysterious method of working,—first preparing the stones in a quarry at some distance off, and then conveying them to the chosen site, and erecting them according to a pre-arranged method, and all in the course of a single night (as the nature and dimensions of the buildings rendered quite possible)—one seems to discern one of the methods by which those dwarf tribes asserted and maintained the "supernatural" qualities ascribed to them.
[137] For these latter references, see pp. [99]-[100] post. Of course, the "aprons" of the traditional dwarfs, it need hardly be added, were leather aprons.
[138] Volkskunde: "Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche Folklore," 2e Jaargang, 9e Aflevering, p. 182.
[139] Op. cit., 2e Jaar. 5e Afl., p. 89.
[140] Op. cit., 2e Jaar. 5e Afl., p. 89.