FAIRIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 70, 23 March 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)

FAIRIES.

(Seiit in by Olga Maseniann, 20, Disraeli Street, Gisborne.) Fairy tales—legends of the gnomes, elves, goblins, pigmies, and mermaids — were told to the British Association at York by a man who has lived in an island where fairies exist. He is Canon McCullocb, a Scottish clergyman, who for 14 years worked in the misty lels of Skye. "There," he said, "I moved among people whose lives were being influenced by their belief in fairies and witches. They believed that witches would steal their cattle, and that fairies would take their babies out of their cradles and substitute other children, and they observed practices (such as laying the tongs or a piece of iron over the cradles) to keep themselves immune from the fairy spells."

Canon McCiilloch has a theory that fairies were an actual race of men. Here are sonic of the questions which he propounded: Were fairies the ghosts of ancient Britons? Are existing pigmies the deecendants of "fairies"? t —Copied.