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MacRitchie, David, 1861-1925

"Fians, Fairies and Picts"

Horum alteri
scilicet Peti parvo superantes pigmeos statura in structuris urbium
vespere et mane mira operantes, meredie vero cunctis viribus prorsus
destituti in subterraneis domunculis pre timore latuerunt._"--From his
treatise _De Orcadibus Insulis_, reprinted in the "Bannatyne
Miscellany," 1855, p. 33.]]
[Footnote 52: _Testimony of Tradition_, pp. 58-60, 65, 67-74, 79-80.]
[Footnote 53: Pennant's Second Tour in Scotland; Pinkerton's _Voyages_,
London, 1809, p. 368.]
[Footnote 54: Linguae Romanae, Dictionarium, Luculentum Novum.]
[Footnote 55: Du Chaillu: _Land of the Midnight Sun_, vol. ii. pp.
421-2. This also is one of the articles of belief in Shetland, with
regard to the _trows_, as the trolls are there called.]
[Footnote 56: _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. of Scot_. (First Series), vol.
iii. pp. 127-144; vol. vii. pp. 153-195.]
[Footnote 57: _The Past in the Present_, Edinburgh, 1880, pp. 58-72.]
[Footnote 58: _The Past in the Present_, p. 59.]
[Footnote 59: Reproduced by permission of the Society of Antiquaries of
Scotland.]
[Footnote 60: _Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot._, vol. iii. p. 137.]
[Footnote 61: _Proc.


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