Note 418 — SCOTTISH LOWLANDS.
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These elf-arrows are triangular pieces of flint, supposed to have been the heads of the arrows used by the aborigines. Though more plentiful in Scotland they are also found in England and Ireland, and were there also attached to the fairies, and the wounds were also only to be discerned by gifted eyes. In an Anglo-Saxon poem, there occur the words æa eco and ýla eco, i. e. arrow of the Gods, and arrow of the Elves. Grimm, Deut. Mythol., p. 22.
