AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF THE EVIDENCE 226-82 The Celtic Fairy-Faith as Part of a World-wide Animism-- Shaping Influence of Social Psychology--Smallness of Elvish Spirits and Fairies, according to Ethnology, Animism, and Occult Sciences--The Changeling, Belief and its Explanation according to the Kidnap, Human-Sacrifice, Soul-Wandering, and Demon-Possession Theory--Ancient and Modern Magic and Witchcraft shown to be based on definite psychological laws--Exorcisms--Taboos, of Name, Food, Iron, Place--Taboos among Ancient Celts--Food-Sacrifice--Legend of the Dead-- Conclusion: the Background of the Modern Belief in Fairies is Animistic. SECTION II THE RECORDED FAIRY-FAITH CHAPTER IV THE PEOPLE OF THE GODDESS DANA OR THE _SIDHE_ 283-307 The Goddess Dana and the Modern Cult of St. Brigit--The Tuatha De Danann or _Sidhe_ conquered by the Sons of Mil-- But Irish Seers still see the _Sidhe_--Old Irish Manuscripts faithfully represent the Tuatha De Danann--The _Sidhe_ as a Spirit Race--_Sidhe_ Palaces--The 'Taking' of Mortals--Hill Visions of _Sidhe_ Women--_Sidhe_ Minstrels and Musicians-- Social Organization and Warfare among the _Sidhe_--The _Sidhe_ War-Goddesses, the _Badb_--The _Sidhe_ at the Battle of Clontarf, A. D. 1014--Conclusion. CHAPTER V BRYTHONIC DIVINITIES AND THE BRYTHONIC FAIRY-FAITH 308-31 The God Arthur and the Hero Arthur--Sevenfold Evidence to show Arthur as an Incarnate Fairy King--Lancelot the Foster-son of a Fairy Woman--Galahad, the Offspring of Lancelot and the Fairy Woman Elayne--Arthur as a Fairy King in _Kulhwch and Olwen_--Gwynn ab Nudd--Arthur like Dagda, and like Osiris--Brythonic Fairy Romances: their Evolution and Antiquity--Arthur in Nennius, Geoffrey, Wace, and in Layamon--Cambrensis' Otherworld Tale--Norman-French writers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries--_Romans d'Aventure_ and _Romans Bretons_--Origins of the 'Matter of Britain'-- Fairy Romance Episodes in Welsh Literature--Brythonic Origins. CHAPTER VI THE CELTIC OTHERWORLD 332-57 General Ideas of the Otherworld; its Location; its Subjectivity; its Names; its Extent; Tethra one of its kings--The Silver Branch and the Golden Bough; and Initiations--The Otherworld the Heaven-World of all Religions--Voyage of Bran--Cormac in the Land of Promise-- Magic Wands--Cuchulainn's Sick-Bed--Ossian's Return from Fairyland--Lanval's going to Avalon--Voyage of Mael-Duin-- Voyage of Teigue--Adventures of Art--Cuchulainn's and Arthur's Otherworld Quests--Literary Evolution of idea of Happy Otherworld. CHAPTER VII THE CELTIC DOCTRINE OF RE-BIRTH 358-96