Produced by Douglas L. Alley, III, Delphine Lettau and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration] THE FAIRY MYTHOLOGY, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE Romance and Superstition of Various Countries; BY THOMAS KEIGHTLEY, Author of the Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy; Histories of Greece, Rome, England, and India, The Crusaders, &c., &c. Another sort there be, that will Be talking of the Fairies still; Nor never can they have their fill, As they were wedded to them DRAYTON. A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND GREATLY ENLARGED LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN, AND NEW YORK. 1892. LONDON: REPRINTED FROM STEREOTYPE PLATES BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED. STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE FRANCIS EARL OF ELLESMERE, IN TESTIMONY OF ESTEEM AND RESPECT FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE VIRTUE, LITERARY TASTE, TALENT, AND ACQUIREMENTS, AND PATRONAGE OF LITERATURE AND THE ARTS. This Volume is Inscribed BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. A preface is to a book what a prologue is to a play--a usual, often agreeable, but by no means necessary precursor. It may therefore be altered or omitted at pleasure. I have at times exercised this right, and this is the third I have written for the present work. In the first, after briefly stating what had given occasion to it, I gave the germs of the theory which I afterwards developed in the Tales and Popular Fictions. The second contained the following paragraph:--