Excerpt from Essays on Subjects Connected With the Literature, Popular Superstitions, and History of England in the Middle Ages, Vol. 2 of 2 From some cause or other, with which we are not well acquainted, our chronicles of the twelfth century are full of fairy legends. The Cambrian Giraldas, Gervase of Tilbury, William of Newbury, and several others, give us so much curious information on the popular mythology of their time, that we can, without much difficulty, sketch the outlines of the vulgar creed. We are there made ...
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Excerpt from Essays on Subjects Connected With the Literature, Popular Superstitions, and History of England in the Middle Ages, Vol. 2 of 2 From some cause or other, with which we are not well acquainted, our chronicles of the twelfth century are full of fairy legends. The Cambrian Giraldas, Gervase of Tilbury, William of Newbury, and several others, give us so much curious information on the popular mythology of their time, that we can, without much difficulty, sketch the outlines of the vulgar creed. We are there made acquainted with the mischievous elt' in all his different shapes, and Gervase even is doubtful whether, on account of the harmlessness of his jokes, he ought to call him a demon or not Ecce enim Anglia daemones quosdam habet, daemones, inquam, nescio dixerim an secretas et ignotae generationis efligies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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