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Kozma gives the names of twenty-three castles still in existence which used to belong to fairies, some of which had in earlier times been inhabited by giants, and which the fairies had taken after the extermination of the giant race. Bacon's Stepmother-Marlowe's "Dido "-Caricatures of -Lafitte the Painter-Sir John Shorter-Sheffington-R. M. Essex, 509-"Don Juan "—Authors Wanted, 510. REPLIES:-Pestilence in England, 510-Henshaw-Most Rates. MAGYAR FOLK-TALES. The Magyar fairy seems to pass her time in bathing, singing, eating, drinking, and dancing, with occasionally a little embroidery. When she falls in love, she loves so intensely that if disappointed she fades away in her grief. Most of these fairies are described as good, but there are also traditions extant concerning bad fairies, in which the influence of Christianity is to be seen, e.g., Dame Vénétur's castle belonged to a bad fairy, who defied God and was swallowed up, Dame Vénétur herself becoming a stone frog.* There is also a rock called Dame Jenös's Carriage, which the people say is the carriage and horses of that bad fairy, who, when her coachman said, "If the Lord help us, we will be home soon," haughtily replied, "Whether He help us or not, we will get home all the same." Another fairy, who lived in Sóvár Castle, while spinning on the Sabbath day, used the Lord's name in vain, and was immediately changed into a block of stone. Traces of Mohammedanism are found in the_tales wherein fairies kidnap girls, such as Dame Hirip, * Ladislaus Kövary's Historical Antiquities, quoted by Kozma. The descendants of bad fairies are witches, cruel, ugly old women with iron teeth or nose, haters of mankind, and possessed of great power. Sometimes they appear as black cats, and other times as green frogs or horses; they change their forms by taking somersaults, and can become fiery ovens, running streams, or what they please; they are the mothers of giants and dragons. They are vicious and spiteful, always doing some evil to their neighbours, very often stealing the cows' milk. It is, however, quite possible to make the witch bring the milk back. The modus operandi is as follows: Take a rag saturated with milk, or a horse-shoe, or a chain which has been made red-hot in a clear fire, place it on the threshold, and beat it with the head of a hatchet; or make a ploughshare red-hot and plunge it several times into cold water. Either of these charms will infallibly cause the witch to appear.§ Scores of charms of a *Cf. "Legend of the Holy Grail," Baring Gould's Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, i. 604, &c. + Lancashire legend of the "Black Cock." Witch in Magyar-boszorkány, according to Prof. tease, to vex, to annoy. Vámbéry, from the Turkish-Tartar root boshûr to It may be of interest to note one or two similar superstitions in our own land. In Yorkshire a relation told me that his mother had seen the following charm. When she was young the horses had the distemper, and were believed to be bewitched, so the heart of one of the horses that had died was taken out and stuck full of pins, then placed on the fire at midnight and slowly roasted, whilst around stood watchers armed with forks, pokers, tongs, &c., all watching the open door, at which the witch must enter, drawn by the potency of the spell. A Lincolnshire friend gave me the following as happening in his neighbourhood. An old witch who lived at Ghad a lover, but they quarrelled, and he married another woman, so for revenge the witch bewitched her whilom lover's cattle, the crowning point being when a fine cow was found with its horns stuck in the side of a ditch, drowned, although there was scarcely any water in it. |