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The Fairy Family.
formed a striking feature in Persian tale . The Deevs ( from Avhom AVC derive om' popular conception of a devil ) were supposed to be most deformed , hideous , hairy monsters , having horns and tails ; full of malignity towards man , and always at Avar with the Peris , who on these occasions sometimes sought for mortal assistance . The latterwhen capturedwere
sus-, , pended from the branches of lofty trees , incarcerated in cages of iron . Here , hoAvever , their sister Peris fed them on delicious perfumes ( their only food ) , until they by some means obtained release from confinement . The Peri has characteristics
not unlike those which Ave attach to angels . Their dwelling is in the clouds and on the rainbow ' s arch . The Arab Houri , or virgins of Paradise , are , hoAvever , a distinct race . The Persians allotted a certain glorious region , called Jinnistan , as the abode of the Genii . They imagined the globe to be supported by a gigantic sapphire , the splendid rays of which tinged the
surrounding space , where the realms of Jinnistan were situated . The Genii were able to change their size and appearance at will . Every one must remember the harroiving pleasure with which he first devoured the tale of the Fisherman and the
Genu , where the fisherman , having broken the seal of the casket he has taken up in his net , perceives a thick smoke to issue thence , gradually increasing to a huge bulk , and assuming the shape of a gigantic Jinn . The Genii play an important part in the Arabian Nights' Tales , ivhich so delighted our youthful imaginations . The latter were ori ginally a body of Indian
fables , translated into Arabian in the time of Calif al Mansur , who flourished about thirty years before Harun al Raschid , cotemporary with Charlemagne . They were narrated by professional tale-tellers , at Bagdad , when the Arabian court was in the zenith of its splendour , and have since been translated and read throughout all parts of civilized Europe .
European romance , though derived from the East , is equall y indebted -to the Scandinavian mythology and that of the Cymri , not without a subsequent admixture also of classical antiquity . Thus the account of the Fairies' origin given by Spenser , makes a classic deity the author of the elfin tribe of the North , the veritable Eastern Fairy being brought in to the whole , after a somewhat extraordinary fashion . He says
that" Prometheus did create A man of many parts ! from beasts deryved ; That man so made he called Elfo , to weet , Quick , the first author of all Elfin kind , Who , wand ' ring through the world with wearie feet , Did in the gardens of Adonis fynd A goodly creature , whom he deemed iu mynd
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Fairy Family.
formed a striking feature in Persian tale . The Deevs ( from Avhom AVC derive om' popular conception of a devil ) were supposed to be most deformed , hideous , hairy monsters , having horns and tails ; full of malignity towards man , and always at Avar with the Peris , who on these occasions sometimes sought for mortal assistance . The latterwhen capturedwere
sus-, , pended from the branches of lofty trees , incarcerated in cages of iron . Here , hoAvever , their sister Peris fed them on delicious perfumes ( their only food ) , until they by some means obtained release from confinement . The Peri has characteristics
not unlike those which Ave attach to angels . Their dwelling is in the clouds and on the rainbow ' s arch . The Arab Houri , or virgins of Paradise , are , hoAvever , a distinct race . The Persians allotted a certain glorious region , called Jinnistan , as the abode of the Genii . They imagined the globe to be supported by a gigantic sapphire , the splendid rays of which tinged the
surrounding space , where the realms of Jinnistan were situated . The Genii were able to change their size and appearance at will . Every one must remember the harroiving pleasure with which he first devoured the tale of the Fisherman and the
Genu , where the fisherman , having broken the seal of the casket he has taken up in his net , perceives a thick smoke to issue thence , gradually increasing to a huge bulk , and assuming the shape of a gigantic Jinn . The Genii play an important part in the Arabian Nights' Tales , ivhich so delighted our youthful imaginations . The latter were ori ginally a body of Indian
fables , translated into Arabian in the time of Calif al Mansur , who flourished about thirty years before Harun al Raschid , cotemporary with Charlemagne . They were narrated by professional tale-tellers , at Bagdad , when the Arabian court was in the zenith of its splendour , and have since been translated and read throughout all parts of civilized Europe .
European romance , though derived from the East , is equall y indebted -to the Scandinavian mythology and that of the Cymri , not without a subsequent admixture also of classical antiquity . Thus the account of the Fairies' origin given by Spenser , makes a classic deity the author of the elfin tribe of the North , the veritable Eastern Fairy being brought in to the whole , after a somewhat extraordinary fashion . He says
that" Prometheus did create A man of many parts ! from beasts deryved ; That man so made he called Elfo , to weet , Quick , the first author of all Elfin kind , Who , wand ' ring through the world with wearie feet , Did in the gardens of Adonis fynd A goodly creature , whom he deemed iu mynd