2. Arthur Rackham : 'A band of workmen, who were sawing down a toadstool,
rushed away, leaving their tools behind them'
3. Henry Fuseli : Cobweb
4- Henry Fuseli : 'Oberon Squeezes a Flower on Titania's Eyelids'
5- Richard Dackl : 'Conic unto tlicsc yellow sands'
6. John Anstcr 1 "itziiciald : i ii^ Liiasc of the \\ hite Mice
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7. Richard Dadd : Bacchanalian Scene
John Anster h'itzgcrald : l-'airv GW'u
g. Richard Doyle : A Fairy Celebration
10. Richard Doyle : The Fairy Tree
1 1. J. Simmons: A l''airv
2. J. Simmons: A Midsummer Night's Dream
115 EachUisge
Dunters. These Border spirits, also called powries, like the more
sinister redcaps inhabit old peel-towers and Border keeps. They make
a constant noise, like beating flax or grinding barley in a hollow stone
quern. William Henderson mentions them in Folk-Lore of the Northern
Counties (pp. 255-6) and says that if the sound gets louder it is an omen
of death or misfortune. He mentions that the foundation of these towers,
supposed to have been built by the Picts, were according to tradition
sprinkled with blood as a foundation sacrifice. The suggestion is that
dunters and redcaps were the spirits of the original foundation sacrifices,
whether human or animal.
Dwarfs. Germany is the great home of dwarfs, and the Isle of Riigen
has dwarfs both black and white. The Swiss mountains are also the homes
of dwarfs, but though there are many stunted and grotesque figures in
English fairy-lore, it is doubtful if they were ever explicitly called
* dwarfs'. The best candidates for the name would be the pygmy king
and his followers who accosted KiNGHERLAin Walter Mapes's story in
his De Nugis Curialium; but he is described as more like a satyr; the
SPRIGGANS of Cornwall are small and grotesque and travel in troops
like some of the German dwarfs, but they are never so called. There are
more solitary fairies of the dwarfish kind, such as the 'wee, wee
man' of one of the Child ballads (No. 38), who is stunted and grotesque
and of great strength. His description is anticipated in a 14th-century
poem quoted in the Appendix to No. 38. The nearest approach to a
black dwarf is the North Country duergar, and the brown man of
THE MUIRS is like him. Dwarfs are often mentioned as attendants on
ladies in Arthurian legends, but these ladies hover so much between a
fairy and a mortal estate that their attendants are equally nebulous. On
the whole it is best, as kirk would say, to 'leave it to conjecture as we
found it'.
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Each Uisce (agh-iski). See A ugh i sky.
Each Uisge (ech-ooshkya). This, the Highland water-horse, is per-
haps the fiercest and most dangerous of all the water-horses, although the
CABYLL ushtey runs it close. It differs from the kelpie in haunting
the sea and lochs, while the Kelpie belongs to running water. It seems
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