Caroline Tully doth schreibble :
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> Admittedly Purkiss was the first place I read
> about identifying fairies with the dead.
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There is an earlier treatment of this
subject in Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz'
*The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries*,
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1911,
with online text available here :
http://tinyurl.com/324e5d
See Section III, The Cult Of Gods,
Spirits, Fairies, and the Dead :
http://tinyurl.com/2uzh8u
In that section, Evans-Wentz cites from
Jeremiah Curtin's *Tales of the Fairies
and of the Ghost World*, 1895 : " The
attributes of a ghost--that is to say,
the spirit of a dead man--are
indistinguishable from those of a fairy. "
Cors in Manu Domine,
~ Khem
" Certainly the children have seen them
In quiet places where the moss grows green.
Coloured shells
Jangled together,
The wind is cold
The year is old
The trees whisper together,
And bent in the wind they lean... "
~ The Incredible String Band
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