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- ↑ Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries, London, Bohn, 1850; Forgotten Books, 2007; p. 42.
- ↑ Keightley, p. 57.
- ↑ Alfred Trubner Nutt, Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare, London, 1900.
- ↑ Joseph Ritson, Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare, London, Kerslake, 1875.
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