 They often ride in invisible procession, when their presence is discovered by the shrill ringing of their bridles. On these occasions they sometimes borrow mortal steeds, and when such are found at morning, panting and fatigued in their...  A Popular History of British Lichens - Pàgina 197per William Lauder Lindsay - 1856 - 352 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 458 pàgines
...it a piece of cheese, as an offering to the Fairies, to whom it was consecrated. Like the feld elfen of the Saxons, the usual dress of the Fairies is green;...sometimes observed in heath-brown, or in weeds dyed with the stoneraw, or lichen. f They often ride in invisible procession, when their presence is discovered... | |
 | Robert Orde Fenwick - 1809 - 146 pàgines
...authority of Mr. Waldron, we have the following interesting particulars. — " Like the FELD ELFEN of the Saxons, the usual dress of the Fairies is green...sometimes observed in heath-brown, or in weeds dyed with the stoneraw, or lichen. They often ride in invisible procession, when their presence is discovered... | |
 | Scottish border - 1812 - 516 pàgines
...piece of cheese, as an offering to the Fairies, to whom it was consecrated, 163 Like tliajeld elfen of the Saxons, the usual dress of the Fairies is green...sometimes observed in heath-brown, or in weeds dyed with the stoneraw, or lichen. * They often ride in invisible procession, when their presence is discovered... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1825 - 350 pàgines
...sun-set."—Dr Leyden's " Dissertation on the Fairy Superstition," in Border Minstrelsy. " Like the Feld-Elfen of the Saxons, the usual dress of the Fairies is green;...heath-brown, or in weeds dyed with stoneraw, or lichen. They often ride in invisible procession; when their presence is discovered by the shrill ringing of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 1104 pàgines
...whom it was consecrated. Like the/eld clfen of the Saxons, the usual dress of the Faines is green i though on the moors, they have been sometimes observed in heath-brown, or in weeds dyedr with the stoneraw, or lichen.* They often ride in invisible procession, when their presence is... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1838 - 562 pàgines
...it a piece of cheese, as an offering to the Fairies, to whom it was consecrated. Like the feld elfen of the Saxons, the usual dress of the Fairies is green...sometimes observed in heath-brown, or in weeds dyed with the stoneraw, or lichen. • They often ride in invisible procession, when their presence is discovered... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1842 - 746 pàgines
...whom it was consecrated. Like the/iW clfcn. of the Saxons, the usual dress of the Faines is green j though on the moors, they have been sometimes observed in heath-brown, or in weeds dyed with the stoneraw, or lichen.* They often ride in invisible procession, when their presence is discovered... | |
 | George Johnston, George Tate - 1853 - 444 pàgines
...people in dyeing stockings and nightcaps of a dirty orange-brown colour. — " Like the feld-elfen of the Saxons, the usual dress of the Fairies is green...on the moors, they have been sometimes observed in heath brown, or in weeds dyed with stoiuraln or lichen." Minstrel. Scot. Bord. ii. p. 310. 18. P. OMPHALODES.... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 pàgines
...wont to throw into it a piece of cheese as an offering to the Fairies, to whom it was consecrated. " The usual dress of the Fairies is green, though, on...sometimes observed in heath-brown, or in weeds dyed with the stoneran, or lichen. They often ride in invisible procession, when their presence is discovered... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 pàgines
...wont to throw into it a piece of cheese as an offering to the Fairies, to whom it was consecrated. " The usual dress of the Fairies is green, though, on...sometimes observed in heath-brown, or in weeds dyed with the stoneran, or lichen. They often ride in invisible procession, when their presence is discovered... | |
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