Scots and Irish Fairies Celtic Folklore . So much of prophecy has been fulfilled.
Tradition seems half gone.
Thomas of Ercildoune and his like go with it. The newspaper editors and other men of the quill, this long while have been elbowing fairy and fairy seer from hearth and board. Maybe yet the creatures have more vitality than they think. Two lady friends of the present writer's believe firmly that the West of Ireland goblins tried to carry them off some odd years since. They were glamoured, and wandered up and down in their own field for an hour, everything having grown strange to them.