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They are dwarfs, and correspond to the Scottish conception of kelpies or fairies. They are wicked and malevolent beings, and are never credited with a good or generous action. Whatever they possess they keep, and greedily seize upon any one who comes within their reach. Anthrop. Dr. The entrance to their dwellings is on the sea-shore.
When his work is complete it will be possible to conjecture with far greater confidence how particular traditions or groups of tradition arose, and to what extent transmission has taken place. Meanwhile, in his recent Huxley Memorial Lecture, he has suggested a third possibility as to the way Deluge stories may have arisen. Anthrop. Inst., 1916.
Noble houses, dynasties of sovereigns, descendants of millionaires all follow the common law which, here again, serves to confirm the inductions in this sense, equalitarian of science and of socialism. MASSART and VANDERVELDE, Parasitism, organic and social. LAPOUGE, Les sélections sociales, in Revue d' anthrop., 1887, p. 519. LORIA, Discourse su Carlo Darwin, SIENNE, 1882.
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