Etruscan Roman remains in popular tradition (1892)
Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903 · London, T. F. Unwin · leaf 180
f a frolicsome browniecharacter, belong rather toTeutonic and Celtic myth-ologies than to the Italian.Herein he quite forgets thatthough the world has throughGrimms fables or early per-sonal influences learned toassociate these sprites withthe North, yet that in realitywritten and authentic… … dwarf races, driven out by KED-CAP ON A ROMAN LAMP. larger and more vigorous people—a process which probably went on all overthe world. This would not interfere with the creation of other personificationsof manikins, such as the very obvious one which occurs to most children oftreating the thumb…
Folklore · Superstition
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