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before laughed at all the stories told of fairies, now became a convert, and believed as much as ever a Manks-man of them all.[1]
- ↑ Waldron, as before, p. 72. A little beyond a hole in the earth, just at the foot of a mountain, about a league and a half from Barool, which they call The Devils den, "is a small lake, in the midst of which is a large stone, on which, formerly, stood a cross: round this lake the fairies are said to celebrate the obsequies of any good person; and I have heard many people, and those of a considerable share of understanding too, protest, that, in passing that way, they have been saluted with the sound of such musick, as could proceed from no earthly instruments." p. 137.
