[91] How far Shakespeare associated his fairy queen Titania with her nominal parent Diana, is a question that would make matter for an elaborate study in mythology and mysticism, and might yet lead to no result. Diana is Luna in the heavens; Lucina (the goddess of child-birth) and the Huntress on earth; and Hecate in the underworld, goddess of enchantments and nocturnal incantations, often also identified with Proserpina. Titania is a votaress of the moon; we have seen that fairies are intimately concerned with mortal babies, and that there is a fairy-hunt (see the quotation from James I's _Demonology_, p. 37 above); and we have also noted the confusion of Proserpina with the fairy-queen.--The _Tuatha De Danann_ are said to be "the folk of _Danu_"--who is Danu? Hecate was called Trivia, on account of the above tripartition of Diana; her statues were set up where three roads met, and the fairy-queen in _Thomas the Rhymer_ points out to him the three roads that lead to heaven, hell, and elf-land. Speculation is easily led astray. [92] J.M. Synge, _Aran Islands_, p. 10. [93] The metamorphosis of Hyacinthus, for instance, Bk. X, 162, sqq.; although there are others in the same book. See also the alteration in the mulberry caused by Pyramus' blood (pp. 77-80). * * * * * ILLUSTRATIVE TEXTS TEXTS THE LEGEND OF PYRAMUS AND THISBE 73 ROBIN GOOD-FELLOW 81 THOMAS OF ERCELDOUNE 122 SCOT'S DISCOVERY OF WITCHCRAFT 133 'STRANGE FARLIES' 141 THE MAD MERRY PRANKS OF ROBIN 144 QUEEN MAB 149 THE FAIRIES' FAREWELL 151 THE FAIRY QUEEN 155 NYMPHIDIA 158 * * * * * THE LEGEND OF PYRAMUS AND THISBE From Arthur Golding's translation of Ovid's _Metamorphoses_ (1575), Book IV, ff. 52-3.