Ulster Folklore

ULSTER FOLKLORE [Illustration: PLATE I. [_R. Welch, Photo._ HARVEST KNOT.] ULSTER FOLKLORE BY ELIZABETH ANDREWS, F.R.A.I. WITH FOURTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON: ELLIOT STOCK 7, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. 1913 INTRODUCTION In 1894 I was at the meeting of the British Association at Oxford, and had the good fortune to hear Professor Julius Kollmann give his paper on "Pygmies in Europe," in which he described the skeletons which had then recently been discovered near Schaffhausen. As I listened to his account of these small people, whose average height was about four and a half feet, I recalled the description of Irish fairies given to me by an old woman from Galway, and it appeared to me that our tradi…

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