{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/sce/sce18.htm","path":"neu/celt/sce/sce18.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sce/sce18.htm","text":"8. THEIR Weapons are mo\u0192t what \u0192olid earthly Bodies, nothing of Iron, but much of Stone, like to yellow \u0192oft Flint Spa, \u0192haped like a barbed Arrow-head, but flung like a Dairt, with great Force. The\u0192e Armes (cut by Airt and Tools it \u0192eems beyond humane) have \u0192omething of the Nature of Thunderbolt \u0192ubtilty, and mortally wounding the vital Parts without breaking the Skin; of which Wounds I have ob\u0192erved in\nBea\u0192ts\n[paragraph continues] Bea\u0192ts, and felt them with my Hands. They are not as infallible Benjamites, hitting at a Hair's-breadth; nor are they wholly unvanqui\u0192hable, at lea\u0192t in Appearance.\nTHE MEN of that SECOND SIGHT do not di\u0192cover \u0192trange Things when a\u0192ked, but at Fits and Raptures, as if in\u0192pyred with \u0192ome Genius at that In\u0192tant, which before did lurk in or about them. Thus I have frequently \u0192poke to one of them, who in his Tran\u0192port told he cut the Bodie of one of tho\u0192e People in two with his Iron Weapon, and \u0192o e\u0192caped this On\u0192et, yet he \u0192aw nothing left behind of that appearing divyded; at other Times he out wre\u0192ted [wre\u0192tled?] \u0192ome of them. His Neibours often perceaved this Man to di\u0192appear at a certane Place, and about one Hour after to become vi\u0192ible, and di\u0192cover him \u0192elfe near a Bow-\u0192hot from the fir\u0192t Place. It was in that Place where he became invi\u0192ible, \u0192aid he, that the Subterraneans did encounter and combate with him. Tho\u0192e who are un\u0192eened or un\u0192anctified (called Fey) are \u0192aid to be pierced or wounded with tho\u0192e People's Weapons, which makes them do\n\u0192omewhat\n\u0192omewhat verie unlike their former Practice, cau\u0192ing a sudden Alteration, yet the Cau\u0192e thereof unperceavable at pre\u0192ent; nor have they Power (either they cannot make u\u0192e of their natural Powers, or a\u0192k't not the heavenly Aid,) to e\u0192cape the Blow impendent. A Man of the Second Sight perceaved a Per\u0192on standing by him (found to others view) wholly gored in Blood, and he (amazed-like) bid him in\u0192tantly flee. The whole Man laught at his Airt and Warning, \u0192ince there was no appearance of Danger. He had \u0192carce contracted his Lips from Laughter, when unexpectedly his Enemy leapt in at his Side, and \u0192tab'd him with their Weapons. They al\u0192o pierce Cows or other Animals, u\u0192ewally \u0192aid to be Elf-\u0192hot, who\u0192e pure\u0192t Sub\u0192tance (if they die) the\u0192e Subterraneans take to live on, viz. the aereal and \u00e6therial Parts, the mo\u0192t \u0192pirituous Matter for prolonging of Life, \u0192uch as Aquavit\u00e6 (moderately taken) is among Liquors, leaving the terre\u0192trial behind. The Cure of \u0192uch Hurts is, only for a Man to find out the Hole with his Finger; as if the Spirits flowing from a Man's\nwarme\nwarme Hand were Antidote \u0192ufficient again\u0192t their poy\u0192on'd Dairts.","title":"The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies: The Secret Commonwealth: Chapter 8","type":"page"}