Quotes by Lewis Spence

About Lewis Spence:

James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence was a Scottish journalist, poet and author. Spence was a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and Vice-President of the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society.
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It must not be thought, however, that in pagan Ireland Fairyland was altogether conceived as a Hades or place of the dead. We have already seen that in some of its types and aspects it was inherently nothing of the sort; as when, for example, it came...

Lewis Spence

As Mr. R. U. Sayee has well said: 'It should be clear a priori that fairy lore must have developed as a result of modifications and accretions received in different countries and at many periods, though we must not overlook the part played by traditi...

Lewis Spence

But I find it necessary to repeat in this particular place that the division into classes, which is so salient a part of modern demonology, had, and has, little significance for primitive man or for the peasant in a comparatively low state of mental ...

Lewis Spence

Author Bio

  • NameLewis Spence
  • DescriptionBritish academic
  • BornNovember 25, 1874
  • DiedMarch 3, 1955
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionJournalist; Lexicographer; Linguist; Poet; Historian; Author