{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/sce/sce20.htm","path":"neu/celt/sce/sce20.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sce/sce20.htm","text":"10. THERE be many Places called Fairie-hills, which the Mountain People think impious and dangerous to peel or di\u0192cover, by taking Earth or Wood from them; \u0192uper\u0192titiou\u0192ly beleiving the Souls of their Predice\u0192\u0192ors to dwell there. 1 And for that End (\u0192ay they) a Mote or Mount was dedicate be\u0192ide every Church-yard, to receive the Souls till their adjacent Bodies ari\u0192e, and \u0192o become as a Fairie-hill; they u\u0192eing Bodies of Air when called Abroad. They al\u0192o affirme tho\u0192e Creatures that move invi\u0192ibly in a Hou\u0192e, and ca\u0192t hug great Stones, but do no much Hurt, becau\u0192e counter-wrought by \u0192ome more courteous and charitable Spirits that are everywhere ready to defend Men, (Dan. 10. 13.) to be Souls that have not attained their Re\u0192t, thorough a vehement De\u0192ire of revealling a Murther or notable Injurie done or receaved,\nor\nor a Trea\u0192ure that was forgot in their Liftyme on Earth, which when di\u0192clo\u0192'd to a Conjurer alone, the Gho\u0192t quite removes.\nIN the nixt Country to that of my former Re\u0192idence, about the Year 1676, when there was \u0192ome Scarcity of Graine, a marvelous Illap\u0192e and Vi\u0192ion \u0192trongly \u0192truck the Imagination of two Women in one Night, living at a good Di\u0192tance from one another, about a Trea\u0192ure hid in a Hill, called SITHBHRUAICH, or Fayrie-hill. The Appearance of a Trea\u0192ure was fir\u0192t repre\u0192ented to the Fancy, and then an audible Voyce named the Place where it was to their awaking Sen\u0192es. Whereupon both aro\u0192e, and meitting accidentallie at the Place, di\u0192covered their De\u0192igne; and joyntly digging, found a Ve\u0192\u0192ell as large as a Scotti\u0192h Peck, full of \u0192mall Pieces of good Money, of ancient Coyn; which halving betuixt them, they \u0192old in Di\u0192h-fulls for Di\u0192h-fulls of Meall to the Countrey People. Very many of undoubted Credit \u0192aw, and had of the Coyn to this Day. But whither it was a good or bad Angell, one of the \u0192ubterranean People, or the re\u0192\u0192le\u0192s Soul of him who hid it,\nthat\nthat di\u0192covered it, and to what End it was done, I leave to the Examination of others.","title":"The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies: The Secret Commonwealth: Chapter 10","type":"page"}