style="font-size:15px;"> Quoted by Brand, “Pop. Antiq.,” vol. ii. p. 481.
35
Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. ii. p. 483.
36
Halliwell-Phillipps’s “Illustrations of Fairy Mythology,” p. 167; see Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” pp. 122, 123.
37
“Illustrations of Shakespeare,” pp. 126, 127.
38
See Croker’s “Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland,” p. 316.
39
See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” vol. ii. p. 493.
40
Ritson’s “Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare,” 1875, p. 29.
41
Some copies read them.
42
“Fairy Mythology,” pp. 27, 28.
43
We may compare Banquo’s words in “Macbeth” (ii. 1):
“Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose.”
44
“Comedy of Errors” (iv. 2) some critics read:
“A fiend, a fairy, pitiless and rough.”
45
This superstition is fully described in chapter on Birth.
46
“Superstitions of Witchcraft,” 1865, p. 220.
47
“Shakspere Primer,” 1877, p. 63.
48
“Rationalism in Europe,” 1870, vol. i. p. 106.
49
“Demonology and Witchcraft,” 1881, pp. 192, 193.
50
“Shakespeare,” 1864, vol ii. p. 161.
51
See Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 51.
52
Webster’s Works, edited by Dyce, 1857, p. 238.
53
“Illustrations of Scottish History, Life, and Superstition,” 1879, p. 322.
54
Spalding’s “Elizabethan Demonology,” 1880, p. 86.
55
“Notes to Macbeth” (Clark and Wright), 1877, p. 137.
56
Scot’s “Discovery of Witchcraft,” 1584, book iii. chap. 16. See Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” p. 235.
57
“Elizabethan Demonology,” pp. 102, 103. See Conway’s “Demonology and Devil-lore,” vol. ii. p. 253.
58
“Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. iii. p. 8.
59
Graymalkin – a gray cat.
60
Henderson’s “Folk-Lore of Northern Counties,” p. 181.
61
Olaus Magnus’s “History of the Goths,” 1638, p. 47. See note to “The Pirate
1
“Illustrations of the Fairy Mythology of ‘A Midsummer-Night’s Dream,’” 1845, p. xiii.
2
“Fairy Mythology,” p. 325.
3
Aldis Wright’s “Midsummer-Night’s Dream,” 1877, Preface, pp. xv., xvi.; Ritson’s “Fairy Mythology,” 1875, pp. 22, 23.
4
Essay on Fairies in “Fairy Mythology of Shakspeare,” p. 23.
5
“Fairy Mythology,” 1878, p. 325.
6
Notes to “A Midsummer-Night’s Dream,” by Aldis Wright, 1877, Preface, p. xvi.
7
“Three Notelets on Shakespeare,” pp. 100-107.
8
See Croker’s “Fairy Legends of South of Ireland,” 1862, p. 135.
9
“Fairy Mythology,” 1878, p. 316.
10
Wirt Sikes’s “British Goblins,” 1880, p. 20.
11
This is reprinted in Hazlitt’s “Fairy Tales, Legends, and Romances, illustrating Shakespeare and other English Writers,” 1875, p. 173.
12
“Illustrations of the Fairy Mythology of the Midsummer-Night’s Dream,” printed for the Shakespeare Society, p. viii.
13
See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. ii. pp. 508-512.
14
Thoms’s “Three Notelets on Shakespeare,” p. 88.
15
See Nares’s Glossary, vol. ii. p. 695.
16
Mr. Dyce considers that Lob is descriptive of the contrast between Puck’s square figure and the airy shapes of the other fairies.
17
“Deutsche Mythologie,” p. 492.
18
See Keightley’s “Fairy Mythology,” pp. 318, 319.
19
“Three Notelets on Shakespeare,” pp. 79-82.
20
Showing, as Mr. Ritson says, that they never ate.
21
“Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft,” 1831, p. 121.
