AUTHOR'S NOTE
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AUTHOR'S NOTE‘Elf’ once meant all the spirits or demons associated with nature, who were supposed to inhabit the waters, the woods and the mountains.
To say the word ‘elf’ in all the Germanic languages and in other languages as well that have borrowed the word, has a more restricted meaning.
The elves were thought of as being handsomer and better made than men only smaller.
The young female elves would enchant and bewitch a man by their beauty. If he took part in their dancing, he was lost and never seen again.
Usually their dancing was without witnesses but in the morning traces of their feet could be seen in the moist grass.
Silvanus, a Latin Deity popular in Rome from the very early days lived in forests and in the mountains and protected agriculture.
Several animals were sacred to him, the horse, the wolf and also the woodpecker. Among plants and trees dedicated to his name were the fig tree, the oak, the dogwort and the laurel.
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