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ON FAIRIES.
Fairies are said, at a distant period, "to have frequented Bussers-hill in St. Marys island; but their nightly pranks, aërial gambols, and cockleshell abodes, are now quite unknown."[1]
"Evil spirits, called fairies, are frequently seen in several of the isles [of Orkney], dancing, and making merry, and sometimes seen in armour."[2]
- ↑ Heaths Account of the islands of Scilly, p. 129.
- ↑ Brands Description of Orkney, Edin. 1703, p. 61: at p. 112, is some account of a brouny.
clergyman, who not only believes in Fairies, but is even so infatuated on the subject as to imagine they are continually in his presence, and has written a book about them.
