Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
"Sometimes ... it seems that the stones are really speaking--speaking of the old things, of the time when the strange fishes and animals lived that are turned into stone now, and the lakes were here; and then of the time when the little Bushmen lived here, so small and so ugly...
An addition to the Bibliography of this subject is made in the above-named volume (p. 88). "In his _Scottish Scenery_ (1803), Dr. Cririe suggests that the germ of the Fairy myth...
1. Chapter 1"Sometimes ... it seems that the stones are really speaking--speaking of the old things, of the time when the strange fishes and animals lived that are turned into stone now, an...
3. Chapter 3"By the side of a burn which flowed through a little grassy glen ... we saw two small round hive-like hillocks, not much higher than a man, joined together, and covered with gra...
4. Chapter 4With reference to the _farlos_, or smoke-hole (otherwise "sky-light"), which, in this instance, is at a height of 7 feet from the floor of the dwelling, Captain Thomas remarks:-...
5. Chapter 5"The nobles of the Tuatha De Danann (with the exception of seven of them who were interred at Talten [which was the third 'Cemetery of the Idolaters']) were buried at Brugh, _i....