In many Mythologies and in world-wide folk-tales there is a narrow bridge or bridges leading to the realm of the dead.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
We believe that a greater age is coming soon, when all the ancient Mythologies will be carefully studied and interpreted, and when the mythology of the Celts will be held in very high esteem.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
They were written in hexameter verse partly because that was the most familiar vehicle of expression in the first half of the fifth century B.C., and partly because it was the vehicle most suited to the imaginative conceptions of Nature which arose out of the old Mythologies.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar