Because the mediaeval Fairies had fallen heir to much of the pre-Christian theory of Hades, it does not follow, of course, that the Fairies were originally ancestral ghosts. This origin has been claimed for them, however, and it is pointed out that the stone arrow-heads of an earlier race are, when found by peasants, called 'elf-shots,' and attributed to the Fairies. Now the real owners and makers were certainly a race dead and gone, as far as a race can die. But probably the ownership of the arrows by elves is only the first explanation that occurs to the rural fancy. On the other hand, it is candid to note that the Zulu Amatongo, certainly 'ancestral ghosts,' have much in common with Scotch and Irish fairies. 'It appears to be supposed,' says Dr. Callaway, 'that the dead become "good people," as the dead among the Amazulu become Amatongo, and, in the funeral processions of the "good people" which some profess to see, are recognised the forms of those who have lately died, as Umkatshana saw his relatives among the Abapansi,' and as Alison saw Maitland of Lethington and Buccleuch in Elfland. This Umkatshana followed a deer into a hole in the ground, where he found dead men whom he knew[32]. Compare Campbell, _Tales from the West Highlands_, ii. 56, 65, 66, 106, where it is written, 'the Red Book of Clanranald is said not to have been dug up, but found _on_ the moss. It seemed as if the ancestors sent it.' Those rather gloomy fairies of the nether-world have little but the name in common with the fairies of Herrick, of the _Midsummer Night's Dream_, and of Drayton's _Nymphidia_. The gay and dancing elves have a way, in Greece, of making girls 'dance with the Nereids' till they dance themselves to death. In the same way it is told of Anne Jefferies, of St. Teath in Cornwall (born 1626), that one had seen her 'dancing in the orchard, among the trees, and that she informed him she was then dancing with the Fairies.' She lived to be seventy, in spite of the Fairies and the local magistrates who tried her case (Scott, _B.M._ ii. 156). Perrault's fairies do not wed mortal men, in this differing from the Indian Apsaras, and the fairies of New Zealand and of Wales. (Taylor's _New Zealand_, p. 143. Compare story of Urvasi and Pururavas, Max Mueller, _Selected Essays_, i. 408. A number of other examples of Fairy loves, including one from America, is given in _Custom and Myth_, pp. 68-86.) On a general view of the evidence, it appears as if the fashion for fairy tales, in Perrault's time, had made rather free with the old _Fata_ or _Fees_. Perrault sins much less than the Comtesse d'Aulnoy, or the Comtesse de Murat, but even he brings in a _Fatua ex machina_ where popular tradition used other expedients.