{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/sce/sce17.htm","path":"neu/celt/sce/sce17.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sce/sce17.htm","text":"7. THEY are \u0192aid to have ari\u0192tocraticall Rulers and Laws, but no di\u0192cernible Religion, Love, or Devotion towards God, the ble\u0192\u0192ed Maker of all: they di\u0192appear whenever they hear his Name invocked, or the Name of JESUS, (at\nwhich\nwhich all do bow willinglie, or by con\u0192traint, that dwell above or beneath within the Earth, Philip. 2. 10;) nor can they act ought at that Time after hearing of that \u0192acred Name. The TABHAISVER, or Seer, that corre\u0192ponds with this kind of Familiars, can bring them with a Spel to appear to him\u0192elfe or others when he plea\u0192es, as readily as Endor Witch to tho\u0192e of her Kind. He tells, they are ever readie\u0192t to go on hurtfull Errands, but \u0192eldome will be the Me\u0192\u0192engers of great Good to Men. He is not terrified with their Sight when he calls them, but \u0192eeing them in a \u0192urpryze (as often he does) frights him extreamly. And glaid would he be quite of \u0192uch, for the hideous Spectacles \u0192een among them; as the torturing of \u0192ome Wight, earne\u0192t gho\u0192tly \u0192tairing Looks, Skirmi\u0192hes, and the like. They do not all the Harme which appearingly they have Power to do; nor are they perceaved to be in great Pain, \u0192ave that they are u\u0192ewally \u0192ilent and \u0192ullen. They are \u0192aid to have many plea\u0192ant toyi\u0192h Books; but the operation of the\u0192e Peices only appears in \u0192ome Paroxi\u0192ms of antic corybantic Jolity, as if\nravi\u0192ht\nravi\u0192ht and prompted by a new Spirit entering into them at that In\u0192tant, lighter and mirrier than their own. Other Books they have of involved ab\u0192tru\u0192e Sen\u0192e, much like the Ro\u0192urcian [Ro\u0192ycrucian] Style. They have nothing of the Bible, \u0192ave collected Parcells for Charms and counter Charms; not to defend them\u0192elves withall, but to operate on other Animals, for they are a People invulnerable by our Weapons; and albeit Were-wolves and Witches true Bodies are (by the union of the Spirit of Nature that runs thorow all, echoing and doubling the Blow towards another) wounded at Home, when the a\u0192trial a\u0192\u0192umed Bodies are \u0192tricken el\u0192ewhere; as the Strings of a Second Harp, tune to ane uni\u0192on, Sounds, though only ane be \u0192truck; yet the\u0192e People have not a \u0192econd, or \u0192o gro\u0192s a Bodie at all, to be \u0192o pierced; but as Air, which when divyded units againe; or if they feel Pain by a Blow, they are better Phy\u0192icians than wee, and quickly cure it. They are not \u0192ubject to \u0192ore Sickne\u0192\u0192es, but dwindle and decay at a certain Period, all about ane Age. Some \u0192ay their continual Sadne\u0192s is becau\u0192e of\ntheir\ntheir pendulous State, (like tho\u0192e Men, Luc. 13. 2. 6.) as uncertain what at the la\u0192t Revolution will become of them, when they are lock't up into ane unchangeable Condition; and if they have any frolic Fitts of Mirth, 'tis as the con\u0192trained grinning of a Mort-head, or rather as acted on a Stage, and moved by another, ther [than?] cordially comeing of them\u0192elves. But other Men of the Second Sight, being illiterate, and unwary in their Ob\u0192ervations, learn from tho\u0192e; one averring tho\u0192e \u0192ubterranean People to be departed Souls, attending awhile in this inferior State, and clothed with Bodies procured throwgh their Alm\u0192deeds in this Lyfe; fluid, active, \u00e6theriall Vehicles to hold them, that they may not \u0192catter, or wander, and be lo\u0192t in the Totum, or their fir\u0192t Nothing; but if any were \u0192o impious as to have given no Alms, they \u0192ay when the Souls of \u0192uch do depairt, they \u0192leep in an unaictve State till they re\u0192ume the terre\u0192triall Bodies again: others, that what the Low-countrey Scotts calls a Wreath, and the Irish TAIBHSHE 1 or Death's Me\u0192\u0192enger, (ap-\npearing\npearing \u0192ometimes as a little rough Dog, and if cro\u0192\u0192ed and conjured in Time, will be pacified by the Death of any other Creature in\u0192tead of the \u0192ick Man,) is only exuvious Fumes of the Man approaching Death, exhal'd and congeal'd into a various Likne\u0192s, 1 (as Ships and Armies are \u0192ometimes \u0192hapt in the Air,) and called a\u0192tral Bodies, agitated as Wild-fire with Wind, and are neather Souls or counterfeiting Spirits; yet not a few avouch (as is \u0192aid,) that \u0192urelie the\u0192e are a numerous People by them \u0192elves, having their own Polities. Which Diver\u0192ities of Judgments may occa\u0192ion \u0192everall Incon\u0192onancies in this Rehear\u0192all, after the narrowe\u0192t Scrutiny made about it.\n18:1 The Death-candle is called DRUIG.","title":"The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies: The Secret Commonwealth: Chapter 7","type":"page"}