camps, as it were, are seen widely spread; cymbals and tympans sound, and sounding pipes are heard, more than human.[1] These invisible essences, however, are both anonymous, and nondescript.
The penates of the Romans, according to honest Reginald Scot, were "the domesticall gods, or rather divels, that were said to make men live quietlie within doores. But some think that Lares are such as trouble private houses. Larvæ are said to be spirits that walke onélie by night. Vinculi terrei are such as was Robin Good-fellowe, that would supplie the office of servants, speciallie of maides; as to make a fier in the morning, sweepe the house, grind mustard and malt, drawe water, &c., these also rumble in houses, drawe latches, go up and downe staiers, &c."[2] A more modern writer says "The Latins have called" the fairies "lares and larvæ, frequenting, as they say, houses, delighting in neatness, pinching the slut, and rewarding the good housewife with money in her shoe."[3] This, however, is nothing but the character of an English fairy applied to the name of a Roman lar or larva. It might have been wished, too, that Scot, a man, unquestionably, of great
