The Little People

Have you ever seen a pixie What about a nixie Where would you find a brownie And who is PuckHiding in the woods, meadows, lakes and caves of Britains green and pleasant land are a multitude of littlestudied folk who have evaded the eyes and lenses of modern naturalists for years. Until now.In this tiny book, Paul Johnson and Dan Goodfellow unveil the fair folk of these ancient isles their ways, names and abodes.

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• 3 THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF THE BRITISH ISLES with illustrations by Dan Goodfellow Paul Johnson First pub
• 4 For Freya and Danu, May your goddesses forever watch over you. Contents Introduction 1 Once Upo
• 1 IntroductIon The enigma and identity of the little people have, through the ages of yore, vexed gr
• 2 3 Legend tells that once, upon all lands, before any people had crossed the seas to the four corne
• 4 5 In Ireland, anciently rich in fairy lore, there is an old expression known as Foidin Seachrain t
• 6 7 All natural changes in the physical terrain and spacing of the land, such as streams, rivers, kn
• 8 9 the second sIght the sacred science of seeing There is much folklore concerned with seeing into
• 10 11 All species of the little people simply adore water but no greater fun is had than by the pixi
• 12 13 The female nixies and the male nixen are very closely related to European undines, river maide
• 14 15 lAdIes oF the lAke mysterious maidens of moonlight During the light of a full moon, reflected
• 16 17 Of all of the good neighbours bound with the sea and shore none are more celebrated than the m
• 18 19 coves And cunnIng cAves keepers of stone, ore and metal Beneath the earths surface, in the wa
• 20 21 The four directions of the compass, north, east, south and west, derive their names from fourf
• 22 23 The wild woods are the last green sanctuaries of wilderness and are one of the most populated
• 24 25 Trees, dryads and their resident little people all depend on each other for survival, with eac
• 26 27 Of all forest dwellers, none is more rarely seen than the hobbits. Very few accounts of them
• 28 29 Upon certain days of the year, when the earth moves through the four seasons, the engaging and
• 30 31 When Shakespeare wrote A Midsummers Night Dream he may have taken his inspiration from Cwm Pwc
• 32 33 The ancient mounds and barrows of Scotland, England and Wales, and also the raths of Ireland,
• 34 35 Few humans have ever gazed at the ethereal beauty of the Fairy Queen. Each and every species
• 36 37 Of all the little people encountered none is more widely known then the leprechaun that appear
• 38 39 The most frequent and widespread species of the little people, more commonly seen around the w
• 40 41 No species of the little people is more connected to man than the agricultural brownies. Belo
• 42 43 The hearth or the fireplace was once the dwelling place of the household spirits, fire sprites
• 44 45 the mAgIc gArden plant and flower The bottom of the garden with its boundary between the green
• 46 47 For those that seek a glimpse of the fair folk, clover is a good place to start. The differe
• 48 49 ANTHROPOPHAGI England. From the Greek meaning maneating. According to English folklore, thes
• 50 51 DUNTERS England, Scotland. Border faeries, or Powries, who haunt the old peel towers. They a
• 52 53 are a longhaired or hairy form of Glaistig. Male or female, they live in stately homes and ca
• 54 55 LESIDHE Ireland. Pronounced Layshee. Forest guardian, usually solitary, mostly nocturnal, di
• 56 57 red with fresh human blood. Has leathery skin, long grey hair, buck teeth, skinny arms and lo
• 58 wATER FAERY Deceptive in their beauty, the females will seduce young men and steal their souls,