[126] J. G. Campbell, The Fians (London, 1891), p. 239. An Irish dwarf is minutely described in Silva Gadelica (ii. 116), O’Grady’s translation. Again, in Malory’s Morte D’Arthur (B. XII. cc. i-ii) a dwarf is mentioned.
[127] Campbell, The Fians, p. 265.
[128] S. H. O’Grady, Silva Gadelica (London, 1892), ii. 199.
[129] Commentary on the Senchas Már, i. 70-1, Stokes’s translation, in Rev. Celt., i. 256-7.
[130] Sir John Rhŷs, Hibbert Lectures (London, 1888), p. 592. Dwarfs supernatural in character also appear in the Mabinogion, and one of them is an attendant on King Arthur. In Béroul’s Tristan, Frocin, a dwarf, is skilled in astrology and magic, and in the version by Thomas we find a similar reference.
[131] Tylor, Prim. Cult.,4 i. 385.
[132] Cf. Windle, op. cit., Intro., p. 57.
[133] Hunt, Anthrop. Mems., ii. 294; cf. Windle, op. cit., Intro., p. 57.
[134] Smith, Myths of the Iroquois, in Amer. Bur. Eth., ii. 65.
[135] Skeat, Malay Magic, p. 329.