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THE BOOK OF HALLOWE'EN
bility. When he saves Wendy's brother from falling as they fly,
"You felt it was his cleverness that interested him, not the saving of human life."
Barrie: Peter and Wendy.
The world in which Peter lived was so near the Kensington Gardens that he could see them through the bridge as he sat on the shore of the Neverland. Yet for a long time he could not get to them.
Peter is a fairy piper who steals away the souls of children.
"No man alive has seen me,
But women hear me play,
Sometimes at door or window,
Fiddling the souls away—
The child's soul and the colleen's
Out of the covering clay."
Hopper: Fairy Fiddler.
On Hallowe'en all traditional spirits are abroad. The Scotch invented the idea of a "Samhanach," a goblin who comes out just
