Excerpt from New Studies of Canadian Folk Lore From France, and that very few changes have even taken place in the primitive form, except, perhaps, in things connected with the difference in climatic or geological sur roundings. The French etymology of the world itself is rather obscure, while some lexicologists even pretend that its origin is unknown. The Dictionnaire a'e l'acaa'e'mie Franeaise makes the word come from the old Norman lutine, which means a ghost, a white lady, or from the Walloon luton or nuton. The most ancient form in French is luiton. Frisch ascribes to it a German origin, and makes it come from laut, sound, noise, while Grimm gives it a Latin derivation, and says it might possibly come from lutus, morning. Grandmadge takes it from the Saxon lytel, which has formed the modern English little. There seems to be something serious in this last etymology, inasmuch as the Goblin lore is of Saxon origin, and particularly as the most distinguishing characteristic of the lutin is its diminutive size. Be that as it may, authors seem to be divided on the origin of the word, but all agree that the superstition obtains, under different. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.