{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/sce/sce11.htm","path":"neu/celt/sce/sce11.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sce/sce11.htm","text":"pure\npure Air and Oyl: others \u0192eid more gro\u0192s on the Foy\u0192on or \u0192ub\u0192tance of Corns and Liquors, or Corne it \u0192elfe that grows on the Surface of the Earth, which the\u0192e Fairies \u0192teall away, partly invi\u0192ible, partly preying on the Grain, as do Crowes and Mice; wherefore in this \u0192ame Age, they are \u0192ome times heard to bake Bread, \u0192trike Hammers, and do \u0192uch lyke Services within the little Hillocks they mo\u0192t haunt: \u0192ome whereof of old, before the Go\u0192pell di\u0192pelled Pagani\u0192m, and in \u0192ome barbarous Places as yet, enter Hou\u0192es after all are at re\u0192t, and \u0192et the Kitchens in order, clean\u0192ing all the Ve\u0192\u0192els. Such Drags goe under the name of Brownies. When we have plenty, they have Scarcity at their Homes; and on the contrarie (for they are empowred to catch as much Prey everywhere as they plea\u0192e,) there Robberies notwith\u0192tanding oft tymes occa\u0192\u0192ion great Rickes of Corne not to bleed \u0192o weill, (as they call it,) or prove \u0192o copious by verie farr as wes expected by the Owner.\nTHERE Bodies of congealled Air are \u0192ome tymes caried aloft, other whiles grovell in different Schapes, and enter into any Cranie or Clift\nof\nof the Earth where Air enters, to their ordinary Dwellings; the Earth being full of Cavities and Cells, and there being no Place nor Creature but is \u0192uppo\u0192ed to have other Animals (greater or le\u0192\u0192er) living in or upon it as Inhabitants; and no \u0192uch thing as a pure Wilderne\u0192s in the whole Univer\u0192e.","title":"The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies: Th...","type":"page"}