Formulas For Dreams and Divination
Month: May 2022
Allies’s list of the fairies.
Jabez Allies (1787-1856) in Antiquities of Worcestershire (second edition, 1852) included in the book an enlargement of an earlier pamphlet on ‘The Ignis Fatuus or…
AINSEL
This is a variant of the ‘Noman’ story and is told in Richardson’s Table-Book about the faries of Northumberland. A widow and her little boy…
Aillen Mac Midhna
Aillen Mac Midhna was a fairy musician of the Tuatha de Danann who came every year at Samhain Eve (All-Hallow Eve) out of Sidhe Finnachaid…
Aiken Drum
The name *Aiken Drum’ is best known in the Scottish nursery rhyme: There cam’ a man to oor toun, To oor toun, to oor toun.…
Afanc
Afanc (avanc). There was some doubt about the form taken by the monster which inhabited a pool called Llyn yr Afanc on the River Conwy…