The Sources And Analogues of "a Midsummer-Night's Dream"
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62 SOURCES AND ANALOGUES OF Horns, in English folk-lore, appear to belong rather to elves than to fairies^ — the elves that haunt hills, and are known all over Europe ; dwarfs, trolls, kobolds, pixies, and so forth. Teutonic witches are called horn-blowers.
Again, the fairy-train or fairy-hunt is supposed to carry horns ; we have seen it already in Sir Orfco," and in Thomas of Erceldoune^ the fairy-queen bears a horn about her neck.
But this Oberon of Huon of Bordeaux is mortal, and is not pict...ured as being abnormal in stature, any more than Mider.
Shakespeare's Oberon and Mider are invisible (or can make themselves so), both have supernatural powers, and both are immortal.
The question of the s'l-ze conventionally attributed to the fairies is of importance, because it shows that a confusion existed between the fays of romance with the elves of folk- superstition. Elves and their numerous counterparts in all European countries and elsewhere — we have just given a list of names which can easily be extended — are above all things small; they also are earth-dwellers, living in hills or under- ground chambers, and originally, perhaps, were supposed to be 1 Cf.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
62 SOURCES AND ANALOGUES OF Horns, in English folk-lore, appear to belong rather to elves than to fairies^ — the elves that haunt hills, and are known all over Europe ; dwarfs, trolls, kobolds, pixies, and so forth. Teutonic witches are called horn-blowers.
Again, the fairy-train or fairy-hunt is supposed to carry horns ; we have seen it already in Sir Orfco," and in Thomas of Erceldoune^ the fairy-queen bears a horn about her neck.
But this Oberon of Huon of Bordeaux is mortal, and is not pict...ured as being abnormal in stature, any more than Mider.
Shakespeare's Oberon and Mider are invisible (or can make themselves so), both have supernatural powers, and both are immortal.
The question of the s'l-ze conventionally attributed to the fairies is of importance, because it shows that a confusion existed between the fays of romance with the elves of folk- superstition. Elves and their numerous counterparts in all European countries and elsewhere — we have just given a list of names which can easily be extended — are above all things small; they also are earth-dwellers, living in hills or under- ground chambers, and originally, perhaps, were supposed to be 1 Cf.
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