{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/sce/sce13.htm","path":"neu/celt/sce/sce13.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sce/sce13.htm","text":"3. THEY are clearly \u0192een by the\u0192e Men of the SECOND SIGHT to eat at Funeralls [and] Banquets; hence many of the Scotti\u0192h-Iri\u0192h will not\ntea\u0192t\ntea\u0192t Meat at the\u0192e Meittings, le\u0192t they have Communion with, or be poy\u0192oned by, them. So are they \u0192een to carrie the Beer or Coffin with the Corps among the midle-earth Men to the Grave. Some Men of that exalted Sight (whither by Art or Nature) have told me they have \u0192een at the\u0192e Meittings a Doubleman, or the Shape of \u0192ome Man in two places; that is, a \u0192uperterranean and a \u0192ubterranean Inhabitant, perfectly re\u0192embling one another in all Points, whom he notwith\u0192tanding could ea\u0192ily di\u0192tingui\u0192h one from another, by \u0192ome \u0192ecret Tockens and Operations, and \u0192o go \u0192peak to the Man his Neighbour and Familiar, pa\u0192\u0192ing by the Apparition or Re\u0192emblance of him. They avouch that every Element and different State of Being have Animals re\u0192embling the\u0192e of another Element; as there be Fi\u0192hes \u0192ometimes at Sea re\u0192embling Monks of late Order in all their Hoods and Dre\u0192\u0192es; \u0192o as the Roman invention of good and bad D\u00e6mons, and guardian Angells particularly a\u0192\u0192igned, is called by them an ignorant Mi\u0192take, \u0192prung only from this Originall. They call this Reflex-man a Co-walker, every way like the\nMan,\n[paragraph continues] Man, as a Twin-brother and Companion, haunting him as his \u0192hadow, as is oft \u0192een and known among Men (re\u0192embling the Originall,) both before and after the Originall is dead, and wes al\u0192o often \u0192een of old to enter a Hous, by which the People knew that the Per\u0192on of that Liknes wes to Vi\u0192ite them within a few days. This Copy, Echo, or living Picture, goes att la\u0192t to his own Herd. It accompanied that Per\u0192on \u0192o long and frequently for Ends be\u0192t known to it \u0192elfe, whither to guard him from the \u0192ecret A\u0192\u0192aults of \u0192ome of its own Folks, or only as ane \u0192portfull Ape to counterfeit all his Actions. However, the Stories of old WITCHES prove beyond contradiction, that all Sorts of People, Spirits which a\u0192\u0192ume light aery Bodies, or crazed Bodies coacted by forrein Spirits, \u0192eem to have \u0192ome Plea\u0192ure, (at lea\u0192t to a\u0192\u0192wage from Pain or Melancholy,) by fri\u0192king and capering like Satyrs, or whi\u0192tling and \u0192creeching (like unlukie Birds) in their unhallowed Synagogues and Sabboths. If invited and earne\u0192tly required, the\u0192e Companions make them\u0192elves knowne and familiar to Men; other wi\u0192e, being\nin\nin a different State and Element, they nather can nor will ea\u0192ily conver\u0192e with them. They avouch that a Heluo, or Great-eater, hath a voracious Elve to be his attender, called a Joint-eater or Ju\u0192t-halver, feeding on the Pith or Quinte\u0192\u0192ence of what the Man eats; and that therefoir he continues Lean like a Hawke or Heron, notwith \u0192tanding his devouring Appetite: yet it would \u0192eem that they convey that \u0192ub\u0192tance el\u0192ewhere, for the\u0192e Subterraneans eat but little in their Dwellings; there Food being exactly clean, and \u0192erved up by Plea\u0192ant Children, lyke inchanted Puppets. What Food they extract from us is conveyed to their Homes by \u0192ecret Paths, as \u0192ume \u0192kilfull Women do the Pith and Milk from their Neighbours Cows into their own Chiefe-hold thorow a Hair-tedder, at a great Di\u0192tance, by Airt Magic, or by drawing a \u0192pickot fa\u0192tened to a Po\u0192t which will bring milk as farr of as a Bull will be heard to roar. 1 The Chiefe made of the remaineing Milk of a Cow thus \u0192train'd will \u0192wim in Water like a Cork. The Method they take to recover their Milk is a\nbitter\nbitter chyding of the \u0192u\u0192pected Inchanters, charging them by a counter Charme to give them back their own, in God, or their Ma\u0192ter's Name. But a little of the Mother's Dung \u0192troakit on the Calves Mouth before it \u0192uck any, does prevent this theft.","title":"The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies: The Secret Commonwealth: Chapter 3","type":"page"}