By W.Y. Evans Wentz, Terrance McKenna
First released in 1911, the vintage publication at the luminous truth of leprechauns, pixies, and different fairy spirits What are fairies, these romantic and infrequently mischievous little people--pixies, nixies, elves, fauns, muffins, dwarfs, leprechauns, and all different kinds of the daoine sidhe (fairy people)? Are they actual? Folklorists say they're fragments of historic spiritual ideals; occultists name them nature spirits; the peasant culture says they're fallen angels who weren't more than enough to be stored or undesirable sufficient to be misplaced. In his definitive research, W.Y. Evans-Wentz, the popular translator of The Tibetan booklet of the lifeless, unveils the mystic and mysterious folklore of the entire Celtic international locations. This booklet offers a physique of culture of and testimony approximately an elusive order of lifestyles that survives within the common environment of untamed and lonely locations. now not chuffed with in basic terms formal learn, Evans-Wentz amassed firsthand studies of fairies in Wales, eire, Scotland, and Brittany and sought to respond to the most important questions shunned via different folklorists. A vintage within the box of Celtic stories, The Fairy religion in Celtic international locations provides facts for residing fairy religion that Dr. Wentz accrued in his travels; examines the recorded tales of fairies in vintage works just like the Welsh Mabinogion, and the Irish Tuatha de Danann, in addition to Arthurian legends; explores trust in fairies; and reports the fairy religion in gentle of technology. A compassionate, energetic, and seminal exploration of a wealthy and luminous global, this can be an remarkable addition to the sector of Celtic reviews.
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But Wales, with conditions more modernized than is the case in Ireland or in the Western Hebrides of Scotland, does not now exhibit in a vigorous or flourishing state those Celtic influences which, when they were active, did so much to create the precious Romances of Arthur and his Brotherhood, and to lay the foundations for the Welsh belief in the Tylwyth Teg, a fairy race still surviving in a few favoured localities. Wales, like all Celtic countries, is a land of long sea-coasts, though there seems to be, save in the mountains of the north, less of mist and darkness and cloud effects than in Ireland and Scotland.
Wherever under modern conditions great multitudes of men and women are herded together there is bound to be an unhealthy psychical atmosphere never found in the country--an atmosphere which inevitably tends to develop in the average man who is not psychically strong enough to resist it, lower at the expense of higher forces or qualities, and thus to inhibit any normal attempts of the Subliminal Self (a well-accredited psychological entity) to manifest itself in consciousness. In this connexion it is highly significant to note that, as far as can be determined, almost all professed materialists of the uncritical type, and even most of those who are thinking and philosophizing sceptics about the existence of a supersensuous realm or state of conscious being, are or have been city-dwellers--usually so by birth and breeding.
Let him rest on the ancient cairn above the mountain-palace of Finvara and look out across the battlefields of Moytura. Let him wander amid the fairy dells of gentle Connemara. Let him behold the Irish Sea from the Heights of Howth, as Fionn Mac Cumhail used to do. Let him listen to the ocean-winds amid Dun Aengus. Let him view the stronghold of Cuchulainn and the Red Branch Knights. Let him linger beside that mysterious lake which lies embosomed between two prehistoric cairns on the summit of enchanted Slieve Gullion, where yet dwells invisible the mountain's Guardian, a fairy woman.