[181] Rev. W. Forsyth, Dornoch, in Folk-lore Journal, VI, 171.
[182] It has been suggested that "Dane" stands for "Danann".
[183] A text states: "Kindly is she as Bast: terrible is she as Sekhet."
[184] The Gaelic word for "witch" comes from English. Gaelic "witch lore" is distinctive, having retained more ancient beliefs than those connected with the orthodox witches.
[185] The "fairy" Queen (the queen of enchantment), who carried off Thomas the Rhymer, appeared as a beautiful woman, but was afterwards transformed into an ugly hag. Thomas laments:
How art thou faded thus in the face,
That shone before as the sun so bricht(bright).
[186] Wm. Cashen, Manx Folk-lore (Douglas, 1912), p. 48.
[187] King James VI of Scotland and I of England.
[188] Ben Jonson's reference is in A Masque of the Metamorphosed Gipsies.