{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/sce/sce12.htm","path":"neu/celt/sce/sce12.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sce/sce12.htm","text":"2. WE then (the more terre\u0192triall kind have now \u0192o numerou\u0192ly planted all Countreys,) do labour for that ab\u0192tru\u0192e People, as weill as for our\u0192elves. Albeit, when \u0192everall Countreys were unhabitated by ws, the\u0192e had their ea\u0192y Tillage above Ground, as we now. The Print of tho\u0192e Furrous do yet remaine to be \u0192een on the Shoulders of very high Hills, which was done when the champayn Ground was Wood and Forre\u0192t.\nTHEY remove to other Lodgings at the Beginning of each Quarter of the Year, \u0192o traver\u0192ing till Doom\u0192day, being imputent and [impotent of?] \u0192taying in one Place, and finding \u0192ome Ea\u0192e by \u0192o purning [Journeying] and changing Habitations. Their cham\u00e6lion-lyke Bodies \u0192wim in the Air near the Earth with Bag and Bagadge; and at \u0192uch revolution of Time, SEERS, or Men\nof\nof the SECOND SIGHT, (F\u00e6males being \u0192eldome \u0192o qualified) have very terrifying Encounters with them, even on High Ways; who therefoir u\u0192wally \u0192hune to travell abroad at the\u0192e four Sea\u0192ons of the Year, and thereby have made it a Cu\u0192tome to this Day among the Scotti\u0192h-Iri\u0192h to keep Church duely evry fir\u0192t Sunday of the Quarter to \u0192ene or hallow them\u0192elves, their Corns and Cattell, from the Shots and Stealth of the\u0192e wandring Tribes; and many of the\u0192e \u0192uper\u0192titious People will not be \u0192een in Church againe till the nixt Quarter begin, as if no Duty were to be learned or done by them, but all the U\u0192e of Wor\u0192hip and Sermons were to \u0192ave them from the\u0192e Arrows that fly in the Dark. 1\nTHEY are di\u0192tributed in Tribes and Orders, and have Children, Nur\u0192es, Mariages, Deaths, and Burialls, in appearance, even as we, (unle\u0192s they \u0192o do for a Mock-\u0192how, or to progno\u0192ticate \u0192ome \u0192uch Things among us.)","title":"The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies: The Secret Commonwealth: Chapter 2","type":"page"}