...were adopted against this abstraction. " The Tramontains to this day," says Kirk, speaking of " Women yet alive, who tell they were taken away when in Child-bed to nurse Fairie Children," " put bread, the Bible, or a piece of Iron, in Women's Bed when travelling, to save...

...occasions) unperceavable by vulgar eyes, like Rachland and other inchanted islands, having firights, continual lamps, and fires often seen without fuel to sustain them. Women are yet alive who tell T - - *el '• *t • lf St • ' -•' , I V .' : . I"'-' • ' »' ' . V .••» u " Sii '.'. .-is.'...

...were adopted against this abstraction. "The Tramontains to this day," says Kirk, speaking of "Women yet alive, who tell they were taken away when in Child-bed to nurse Fairie Children," "put bread, the Bible, or a piece of Iron, in Women's Bed when travelling, to save...

...occasions) unperceivable by vulgar eyes, like Rachland and other enchanted islands, having fir lights, continual lamps, and fires, often seen without fuel...being left in their place (like their reflection in a mirror), which (as if it were some insatiable spirit in an assumed body) made first semblance to devour...

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...release her until the child could walk alone. An old superstition tells us that women were often enticed, when in childbed, to nurse fairy children, " a lingering voracious image of them being substituted, like their reflection in a mirror, or some insatiable spirit in an assumed body." " I...

...houses are called large and fair, and (unless at som odd occasions) unperceivable by vulgar eyes . . . women are yet alive who tell they were taken away when in Child-bed to nurse ffayrie Children, a lingring voracious image of theirs being left in their place22 . . . The Tramontanes,23...

...nurture them with human the ET-BS than anything else. As Robert Kirk notes in The Secret Commonwealth: "Women are yet alive who tell they were taken away when in Child-bed to nurse ffayrie Children, a lingring voracious image of theirs being left in their place (as if it were som...

...inchanted I/lands, having fir Lights, continual Lamps, and Fires, often /een without Fuel to /u/tain them. Women are yet alive who tell they were taken away when in Childbed to nur/e Fairie Children, a lingering voracious Image of their (them?) being left in their place, (like...

...occasions) unperceivable by vulgar eyes, like Rachland and other enchanted islands, having for light continual lamps and fires, often seen without fuel...nurse fairy children, a lingering voracious image of theirs being left in their place (like their reflection in a mirror), which (as if it were some insatiable...