Lexicographical Neighbors of Silvans
Literary usage of Silvans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters on demonology and witchcraft: Addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq by Walter Scott (1831)
"The Fairy Superstition is derived from different Sources— The Classical Worship
of the silvans, or Rural Deities ..."
2. Tales of a Grandfather, Fourth Series: Being Stories Taken from the History by Walter Scott (1834)
"Six personages of the highest rank, the king himself being one of them, appeared,
for the amusement of the party, disguised in the character of silvans or ..."
3. Tales of a Grandfather: 1st [-4th] Series : Being Stories Taken from by Walter Scott (1851)
"Six parsonages of the highest rank, the king himself being one of them, appeared,
for the amusement of the party, disguised in the character of silvans or ..."
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