The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries
The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries
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Evans, Exorcism in Wales, in Folk-Lore, iii. 274-7. * W. Crooke, in Folk-Lore, xiii. 189-90.
WENTZ X \ \ • 274 THE LIVING FAIRY-FAITH sect, i preserved even until now, no doubt, in the Christian fete of St. Cornely, just as in St. Cornely's Fountain there is pre- served a pagan holy well.
It ought now to be clear that both pre-Christian and Christian exorcisms among Celts have shaped the Fairy- Faith in a very fundamental manner. And anthropologically the whole subject of exorcism falls in line... with the Psycho- logical Theory of the nature and origin of the belief in fairies in Celtic countries.
Taboos We find that taboos, or prohibitions of a religious and social character, are as common in the living Fairy-Faith as exorcisms. The chief one is the taboo against naming the fairies, which inevitably results in the use of euphemisms, such as ' good people ', * gentry ', * people of peace ', Tylwyth Teg (' Fair Folk '), or bonnes dames (' good ladies '). A like sort of taboo, with its accompanying use of euphemisms, existed among the Ancients, e.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Evans, Exorcism in Wales, in Folk-Lore, iii. 274-7. * W. Crooke, in Folk-Lore, xiii. 189-90.
WENTZ X \ \ • 274 THE LIVING FAIRY-FAITH sect, i preserved even until now, no doubt, in the Christian fete of St. Cornely, just as in St. Cornely's Fountain there is pre- served a pagan holy well.
It ought now to be clear that both pre-Christian and Christian exorcisms among Celts have shaped the Fairy- Faith in a very fundamental manner. And anthropologically the whole subject of exorcism falls in line... with the Psycho- logical Theory of the nature and origin of the belief in fairies in Celtic countries.
Taboos We find that taboos, or prohibitions of a religious and social character, are as common in the living Fairy-Faith as exorcisms. The chief one is the taboo against naming the fairies, which inevitably results in the use of euphemisms, such as ' good people ', * gentry ', * people of peace ', Tylwyth Teg (' Fair Folk '), or bonnes dames (' good ladies '). A like sort of taboo, with its accompanying use of euphemisms, existed among the Ancients, e.
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