{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/sce/sce15.htm","path":"neu/celt/sce/sce15.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sce/sce15.htm","text":"5. THEIR Apparell and Speech is like that of the People and Countrey under which they live: \u0192o are they \u0192een to wear Plaids and variegated Garments in the Highlands of Scotland, and Suanochs therefore in Ireland. They \u0192peak but litle, and that by way of whi\u0192tling, clear, not rough. The verie Divels conjured in any Countrey, do an\u0192wer in the Language of the Place; yet \u0192ometimes the Subterraneans \u0192peak more di\u0192tinctly than at other times. Ther Women are \u0192aid to Spine very fine, to Dy, to To\u0192\u0192ue, and Embroyder: but whither it is as manuall Operation of \u0192ub\u0192tantiall refined Stuffs, with apt and \u0192olid In\u0192truments, or only curious Cob-webs, impalpable Rainbows, and a fanta\u0192tic Imitation of the Actions of more terre\u0192tricall Mortalls, \u0192ince it tran\u0192cended all\nthe\nthe Sen\u0192es of the Seere to di\u0192cerne whither, I leave to conjecture as I found it.","title":"The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies: The Secret Commonwealth: Chapter 5","type":"page"}