Note 27 — Chapter VII
Reading edition
Numbers of books treat of the superstitious belief in fairies. The Irish fancy that they are the "fallen angels" mentioned in Jude 6, and that on the day of judgment they will be released from their hapless condition (2 Peter ii. 4). The belief in fairies is universal in Mahomedan countries.—Vide "Lalla-Rookh," "Paradise and the Peri."