P. 161. _aulfe_. Cf. "ouphs," _Merry Wives of Windsor,_ V. v.

[4] _Pigwiggen_. "Piggy-widden" is a west-country dialect term, meaning a
little white pig, used as an endearment for the youngest of a family.

[5] P. 162. _starved_, i.e. killed.

[6] P. 166. _The Tuscan poet_, Ariosto; _the frantic Paladin,_ Orlando
Furioso.

[7] P. 170. "_Ho, ho._" See note (p. 189) on _Robin Goodfellow_.

[8] _vild_, an old form of "vile."

[9] _lin_, stop.

[10] P. 174. _fern-seed._ A very common superstition, which still survives,
is that the seeds of the fern have power to confer invisibility.

[11] _lunary,_ a name given to several plants, here probably moonwort. It
was supposed to open locks.

[12] P. 175. _lubrican_, the name of an Irish pigmy sprite, otherwise
called _leprechaun_.

[13] _fire-drake,_ a fiery dragon. The word also meant a meteor.

[14] P. 178. _bent_, grass-stalk.

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INDEX

Aegeus, 12
Aegles, 9
Aethra, 9
Alberich, 36
Alcmena, 9
_Amazonide_, 13
_Anelida and Arcite_, 13
Antiopa, 9-10
Apuleius, 30
Arcite, 12-25
Ariadne, 9
Aristotle, 12
Arthur, King, 44, 48, 57
Arthurian cycle, 57-8
Auberon, 35
Avalon, 43

Ballads: _Tam Lin_, 38, 53
_Thomas the Rhymer_, 46-7
_King Orfeo_, 52
Boccaccio, 12-14
Bodin, 30
Bottom, 29-30
Breton lays, 54-5

Chambers, E.K., 9, 24, 40, 64
Characters, 4:
_Theseus and Hippolyta,_ 9-11;
_Egeus, Philostrate, Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, and Hermia_, 12;
_Bottom and his comrades_, 29;
_Oberon_, 35-6;
_Titania_, 36;
_Puck_, 37-40
Chaucer, 9, 10, 12-14, 22-5, 39, 58

Demetrius, 12, 25
_Demonology_, 37
Diana, 36-7
_Discovery of Witchcraft_, 29-30, 36, 39, 133-140

Eddic lays, 42
Edwardes, R., 22
Egeus, 12
Elf-land: _see_ Fairy-land.
Emelye (Emilia), 12, 14-22
Emetreus, 19, 21, 25
Eochaid, 55-7
Etain, 55-7
Eurydice, 49-50

_Fairie Queen_, 36, 39
Fairies, 35, 41, 44, 62-6.
See also under _King_ and _Queen_.
Fairy-land, 35, 46, 55-7, 59
Fairy-lore: sleeping under trees, 53;
the fiend's tithe, 53-4;
white horses, 54;
horns, 62;
hunt, 62
Fates, 42
Fay, 41
Fletcher, John, 23

Golding, A., 31
Gollancz, Prof., 32
Goodfellow, Robin, 37-40, 63, 144-8
Goodfellow, Robin, tract, 39, 81-121
Gower, John, 41
Greene, Robert, 12, 36

Halpin, Rev. N.J., 66-7
Hel