Social Organization of the ‘Sidhe’.—
Q.—You refer to chieftain-like or prince-like beings, and to a king among water beings; is there therefore definite social organization among the various Sidhe orders and races, and if so, what is its nature?
A.—‘I cannot say about a definite social organization. I have seen beings who seemed to command others, and who were held in reverence. This implies an organization, but whether it is instinctive like that of a hive of bees, or consciously organized like human society, I cannot say.’
Lower ‘Sidhe’ as Nature Elementals.—
Q.—You speak of the water-being king as an elemental king; do you suggest thereby a resemblance between lower Sidhe orders and what mediaeval mystics called elementals?
A.—‘The lower orders of the Sidhe are, I think, the nature elementals of the mediaeval mystics.’
Nourishment of the Higher ‘Sidhe’.—
Q.—The water beings as you have described them seem to be nourished and kept alive by something akin to electrical fluids; do the higher orders of the Sidhe seem to be similarly nourished?
A.—‘They seemed to me to draw their life out of the Soul of the World.’
Collective Visions of ‘Sidhe’ Beings.—