 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 458 páginas
...it a piece of cheese, as an offering to the Fairies, to whom it was consecrated. Like the feld elfen of the Saxons, the usual dress of the Fairies is green;...heath-brown, or in weeds dyed with the stoneraw, or lichen. f They often ride in invisible procession, when their presence is discovered by the shrill... | |
 | Robert Orde Fenwick - 1809 - 146 páginas
...authority of Mr. Waldron, we have the following interesting particulars. — " Like the FELD ELFEN of the Saxons, the usual dress of the Fairies is green...heath-brown, or in weeds dyed with the stoneraw, or lichen. They often ride in invisible procession, when their presence is discovered by the shrill ringing... | |
 | Scottish border - 1812 - 516 páginas
...piece of cheese, as an offering to the Fairies, to whom it was consecrated, 163 Like tliajeld elfen of the Saxons, the usual dress of the Fairies is green...heath-brown, or in weeds dyed with the stoneraw, or lichen. * They often ride in invisible procession, when their presence is discovered by the shrill... | |
 | 1821 - 618 páginas
...moors, they have been sometimes observed in heath-brown, or in weeds dyed with etone-raw, or lichen. They often ride in invisible procession ; when their...discovered by the shrill ringing of their bridles — Hid. Note II. When withered hags their orgies kept Mid darksome night. ich as wish to re that not's... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1825 - 350 páginas
...sun-set."—Dr Leyden's " Dissertation on the Fairy Superstition," in Border Minstrelsy. " Like the Feld-Elfen of the Saxons, the usual dress of the Fairies is green;...sometimes observed in heath-brown, or in weeds dyed with stoneraw, or lichen. They often ride in invisible procession; when their presence is discovered by... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 1104 páginas
...whom it was consecrated. Like the/eld clfen of the Saxons, the usual dress of the Faines is green i though on the moors, they have been sometimes observed in heath-brown, or in weeds dyedr with the stoneraw, or lichen.* They often ride in invisible procession, when their presence is... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 396 páginas
...it a piece of cheese, as an offering to the Fairies, to whom it was consecrated. Like tlaefeld elfen of the Saxons, the usual dress of the Fairies is green;...heath-brown, or in weeds dyed with the stoneraw, or lichen. 1 They often ride in invisible procession, when their presence is discovered by the shrill... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1838 - 562 páginas
...it a piece of cheese, as an offering to the Fairies, to whom it was consecrated. Like the feld elfen of the Saxons, the usual dress of the Fairies is green...heath-brown, or in weeds dyed with the stoneraw, or lichen. • They often ride in invisible procession, when their presence is discovered by the shrill... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1842 - 746 páginas
...whom it was consecrated. Like the/iW clfcn. of the Saxons, the usual dress of the Faines is green j though on the moors, they have been sometimes observed...heath-brown, or in weeds dyed with the stoneraw, or lichen.* They often ride in invisible procession, when their presence is discovered by the shrill ringing... | |
 | George Johnston, George Tate - 1853 - 444 páginas
...people in dyeing stockings and nightcaps of a dirty orange-brown colour. — " Like the feld-elfen of the Saxons, the usual dress of the Fairies is green...on the moors, they have been sometimes observed in heath brown, or in weeds dyed with stoiuraln or lichen." Minstrel. Scot. Bord. ii. p. 310. 18. P. OMPHALODES.... | |
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Peeblesshire, a spring called the Cheese Well, because, anciently, those who passed that way were wont to throw into it a piece of cheese as an offering to the fairies, to whom it was consecrated. Like the feld elfen of the Saxons, the usual dress of... 
