“But this western Otherworld, if it is what we believe it to be–a poetical picture o
“But this western Otherworld, if it is what we believe it to be–a poetical picture of the great subjective world–cannot be the realm of any one race of invisible beings to the exclusion of another. In it all alike–gods, Tuatha De Danann, fairies demons, shades, and every sort of disembodied spirits–find their appropriate abode; for though it seems to surround and interpenetrate this planet even as the X-rays interpenetrate matter, it can have no other limits than those of the Universe itself.”-W. Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (1911) -- source link
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