The Fairy Mythology

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275

ORKNEYS.

he had

merly

cleareth

which

the

which

corn

fenced

way

any

greatest

of wind

storm

stacks^ which^

with

stacks

straw

or

ropes,

be, yet the

to

use

able

not

was

stacks

blow

to

any

off them."

thing A

other

as

:

devil

the

also had

Brownie's

bound

not

were

They

you."

service

Resist

"

they called

though they

his wonted

Scripture,

he will flee from

and of

been, abandoned

important

very

told^ inhabited

the

personage

once,

in the

Orkneys

we

are

character

of

Brownie.

Luridan,"

**

kind, did for many

of this of

the

Pomonia,

the

with

maid-servant

washing

before

that

in

land, Scotand

man-servant

diligence to

haunt, sweeping their

dishes, and

making

those rooms

their

fires ridly Lu-

the

morning.

This

affirmed, that

he

was

the

Astral

were

;

that his

and

called

remained

placeor

David

by

the

was

Jews the

long

in

their

bards

at

genius

residence Jerusalem

Belelah

;

in

British

said he, 'I have

continuance

is but

removed

of

in the

days

; that

then

after

that, he

of

Wales,

poesy

and

dominion

being called Wrthin, Wadd, now/

island

in

island

was

the

up

any

of Solomon he

their

of

wonderful

familiar

a

Orkades

the

place

he did

whom

families

"

years inhabit

largest of

supplying

and

Reginald Scot,

says

Elgin ;

structing inphecies, pro'

and

hither, and, alas! my

short, for in seventy years t2

I


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