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Ireland we hear but little of the darker powers, and come across any who have seen them even more rarely, for the imagination of the people dwells rather upon the fantastic and capricious, and fantasy and caprice would lose the freedom which is their breath of life were they to unite them either with evil or with good. And yet the wise are of opinion, that wherever man is, the dark powers, who feed his rapacities; no less than the bright beings, who store their honey in the cells of his heart; and the twilight beings who flit hither and thither; encompass him