Guest of the Seelie Court HWSM 02 001

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Guest of the Seelie Court "No tract of elfin character is better known than its vindictiveness. No person ever cursed the Seely Court and prospered. Their power was believed to be dreadful. Ruin overtook the worldly circumstances of the hapless wight who, in an evil hour, spoke unguardedly of those haughty beings, and a lingering disease attacked his constitution, which carried him, after witnessing the total wreck of his affairs, into an untimely grave. In especial, they never failed to pour out the full cup of their vengeance upon the bare heads of those infatuated husbandsmen who dared to violate their particular greens, or to tear up with the plough those beautiful circlets consecrated to their moonlight revels" (p. 19). Edinburgh Magazine . "On Good and Bad Fairies." Vol. 5, July 1819. https://books.google.ca/books?id=4NsEAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false