“…she loved old tales, and wild uncanny legends of kelpies and water-horses and sea-bulls, of fairy-lovers and solitary walkers in the night, of the green-clad cailleach on the hillside singing her fatal song as she milked the wild deer, of the bewitched thorns under which folk lay down to awake witless, of horns heard in the moonshine, and strange forlorn music in desolate places, and of what came of these and other omens and perversities…”
— from ‘The Dominion of Dreams’ by Fiona Macleod, 1899. A writer of the Celtic Revival movement, pseudonym for William Sharp. “This Book of Dreams That Are Realities” (via peacockmirror)
