text:  We have compared them as if ESTHETICALLY; we would now compare them MYTHOLOGICALLY--for in our understanding there lies at the very foundation of both tales A MYTHOLOGICAL ROOT--by whomsoever set whether by Ernst Willkomm to-day or by the population of the Lusatian mountains--three six ten centuries ago; or in unreckoned antiquity by the common Ancestors of the believers who in still unmeasured antiquity brought the superstition of the Fairies out of central Asia to remote occidental Europe