[CONTENTS]
| INTRODUCTION. | Page |
| Origin of the Belief in Fairies | [1] |
| Origin of the Word Fairy | [4] |
| ORIENTAL ROMANCE. | |
| Persian Romance | [14] |
| The Peri-Wife | [20] |
| Arabian Romance | [24] |
| MIDDLE-AGE ROMANCE. | |
| FAIRY-LAND | [44] |
| SPENSER'S FAERIE QUEENE | [55] |
| EDDAS AND SAGAS | [60] |
| The Alfar | [64] |
| The Duergar | [66] |
| Loki and the Dwarf | [68] |
| Thorston and the Dwarf | [70] |
| The Dwarf-Sword Tirfing | [72] |
| SCANDINAVIA. | |
| Elves | [78] |
| Sir Olof in the Elve-Dance | [82] |
| The Elf-Woman and Sir Olof | [84] |
| The Young Swain and the Elves | [86] |
| Svend Faelling and the Elle-Maid | [88] |
| The Elle-Maids | [89] |
| Maid Væ | [89] |
| The Elle-Maid near Ebeltoft | [90] |
| Hans Puntleder | [91] |
| Dwarfs or Trolls | [94] |
| Sir Thynnè | [97] |
| Proud Margaret | [103] |
| The Troll Wife | [108] |
| The Altar-Cup in Aagerup | [109] |
| Origin of Tiis Lake | [111] |
| A Farmer tricks a Troll | [113] |
| Skotte in the Fire | [113] |
| The Legend of Bodedys | [115] |
| Kallundborg Church | [116] |
| The Hill-Man invited to the Christening | [118] |
| The Troll turned Cat | [120] |
| Kirsten's Hill | [121] |
| The Troll-Labour | [122] |
| The Hill-Smith | [123] |
| The Girl at the Troll-Dance | [125] |
| The Changeling | [125] |
| The Tile-Stove jumping over the Brook | [127] |
| Departure of the Trolls From Vendsyssel | [127] |
| Svend Faelling | [128] |
| The Dwarfs' Banquet | [130] |
| Nisses | [139] |
| The Nis Removing | [140] |
| The Penitent Nis | [141] |
| The Nis and the Boy | [142] |
| The Nis Stealing Corn | [143] |
| The Nis and the Mare | [144] |
| The Nis Riding | [145] |
| The Nisses in Vosborg | [146] |
| Necks, Mermen, and Mermaids | [147] |
| The Power of the Harp | [150] |
| Duke Magnus and the Mermaid | [154] |
| NORTHERN ISLANDS. | |
| Iceland | [157] |
| Feroes | [162] |
| Shetland | [164] |
| Gioga's Son | [167] |
| The Mermaid Wife | [169] |
| Orkneys | [171] |
| Isle of Rügen | [174] |
| Adventures of John Dietrich | [178] |
| The Little Glass Shoe | [194] |
| The Wonderful Plough | [197] |
| The Lost Bell | [200] |
| The Black Dwarfs of Granitz | [204] |
| GERMANY. | |
| Dwarfs | [216] |
| The Hill-Man at the Dance | [217] |
| The Dwarf's Feast | [218] |
| The Friendly Dwarfs | [220] |
| Wedding-Feast of the Little People | [220] |
| Smith Riechert | [221] |
| Dwarfs stealing Corn | [222] |
| Journey of Dwarfs over the Mountain | [223] |
| The Dwarfs borrowing Bread | [226] |
| The Changeling | [227] |
| The Dwarf-Husband | [232] |
| Inge of Rantum | [232] |
| The Wild-Women | [234] |
| The Oldenburg Horn | [237] |
| Kobolds | [239] |
| Hinzelmann | [240] |
| Hödeken | [255] |
| King Goldemar | [256] |
| The Heinzelmänchen | [257] |
| Nixes | [258] |
| The Peasant and the Waterman | [259] |
| The Water-Smith | [260] |
| The Working Waterman | [261] |
| The Nix-Labour | [261] |
| SWITZERLAND. | |
| Dwarfs | [264] |
| Gertrude and Rosy | [266] |
| The Chamois-Hunter | [271] |
| The Dwarfs on the Tree | [273] |
| Curiosity punished | [273] |
| The Rejected Gift | [275] |
| The Wonderful Little Pouch | [276] |
| Aid and Punishment | [277] |
| The Dwarf in search of Lodging | [278] |
| GREAT BRITAIN. | |
| England. | |
| The Green Children | [281] |
| The Fairy-Banquet | [283] |
| The Fairy-Horn | [284] |
| The Portunes | [285] |
| The Grant | [286] |
| The Luck of Eden Hall | [292] |
| The Fairy-Fair | [294] |
| The Fairies' Caldron | [295] |
| The Cauld Lad of Hilton | [296] |
| The Pixy-Labour | [301] |
| Pixy-Vengeance | [303] |
| Pixy-Gratitude | [304] |
| The Fairy-Thieves | [305] |
| The Boggart | [307] |
| Addlers and Menters | [308] |
| The Fary-Nurseling | [310] |
| The Fary-Labour | [311] |
| Ainsel | [313] |
| Puck | [314] |
| Scottish Lowlands. | |
| The Fairies' Nurse | [353] |
| The Fairy-Rade | [354] |
| The Changeling | [355] |
| Departure of the Fairies | [356] |
| The Brownie | [357] |
| CELTS AND CYMRY. | |
| Ireland. | |
| Clever Tom and the Leprechaun | [373] |
| The Leprechaun in the Garden | [376] |
| The Three Leprechauns | [379] |
| The Little Shoe | [382] |
| Scottish Highlands. | |
| The Fairy's Inquiry | [385] |
| The Young Man in the Shian | [386] |
| The two Fiddlers | [387] |
| The Fairy-Labour | [388] |
| The Fairy borrowing Oatmeal | [389] |
| The Fairy-Gift | [390] |
| The Stolen Ox | [390] |
| The Stolen Lady | [391] |
| The Changeling | [393] |
| The Wounded Seal | [394] |
| The Brownies | [395] |
| The Urisk | [396] |
| Isle of Man. | |
| The Fairy-Chapman | [398] |
| The Fairy-Banquet | [399] |
| The Fairies' Christening | [400] |
| The Fairy-Whipping | [400] |
| The Fairy-Hunt | [401] |
| The Fiddler and the Fairy | [402] |
| The Phynnodderee | [402] |
| Wales. | |
| Tale of Elidurus | [404] |
| The Tylwyth Têg | [408] |
| The Spirit of the Van | [409] |
| Rhys at the Fairy-Dance | [415] |
| Gitto Bach | [416] |
| The Fairies banished | [417] |
| Brittany. | |
| Lai D'Ywenec | [422] |
| Lord Nann and the Korrigan | [433] |
| The Dance and Song of the Korred | [438] |
| SOUTHERN EUROPE. | |
| Greece | [443] |
| Italy | [447] |
| Spain | [456] |
| The Daughter of Peter do Cabinam | [456] |
| Origin of the House of Haro | [458] |
| La Infantina | [459] |
| Pepito el Corcovado | [461] |
| France. | |
| Legend of Melusina | [480] |
| EASTERN EUROPE. | |
| Finns | [487] |
| Slaves | [490] |
| Vilas | [492] |
| Deer and Vila | [493] |
| AFRICANS, JEWS, | |
| Africans | [495] |
| Jews | [497] |
| The Broken Oaths | [498] |
| The Moohel | [506] |
| The Mazik-Ass | [510] |
| APPENDIX | [513] |
| INDEX | [557] |
THE FAIRY MYTHOLOGY
[INTRODUCTION.]
In oldè dayès of the King Artoúr,
Of which that Bretons spoken gret honoúr,
All was this lond fulfilled of faërie;
The elf-qrene with hir jolie companie
Danced full oft in many a grenè mede.
Chaucer.