[24]

Lib. III, cap. vi.

[25]

Paris, 1670. Strange that this book should have been seized upon by students of the occult as a ‘text-book’ furnishing longed-for details of the ‘lost knowledge’ concerning elementary spirits, when it is, in effect, a very whole-hearted satire upon belief in such beings!

[26]

Villemarqué, Myrdhinn, ou l’Enchanteur Merlin (1861).

[27]

MacCulloch, The Religion of the Ancient Celts, p. 122.

[28]

Or subterranean dwellers. See D. MacRitchie’s Fians, Fairies, and Picts (1893).