Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
Witchcraft introduces us to a class of popular superstitions entirely different from those connected with Fairies. Fairies, water-horses, and kindred supernatural beings were distinct from the Evil Spirits that gave to witches their unhallowed powers. They could not be compell...
Witchcraft introduces us to a class of popular superstitions entirely different from those connected with Fairies. Fairies, water-horses, and kindred supernatural beings were di...
2. CHAPTER II.In English, a distinction is recognised between _black_ and _white_ witches. The former could hurt but not help; their power was only one of mischief. White witches were honest,...
3. CHAPTER III.Death has always been deemed the greatest evil that afflicts humanity, and the terrors and awe which its advent inspires have given superstition its amplest scope. The “King of...
4. CHAPTER IV.Freed from a good deal of mystery in which an imperfect understanding of its character has involved it, the gift of second sight may be briefly explained to be the same as being...
5. CHAPTER V.The term _Bòchdan_ (pron. Baucan) is a general name for terrifying objects seen at night, and taken to be supernatural, bugbears, ghosts, apparitions, goblins, etc., in all thei...
6. CHAPTER VI._Bliadhna_, a year, has been derived by writers on Celtic antiquities from _Bel-ain_, “the ring or circle of Baal,” but the derivation is at variance with etymological analogies...