fairyfolk

In early dawns, when fields of flowers were asparkle in the sun, the milkmaids used to bathe their eyes and ears with dew that they might see the fairyfolk forever afterward and hear them sing at midnight in the glen.

Then fairyfolk still lived in the greenwoods and elves sang and danced in the soft summer dawns.

Now the Manse and glebe were the seat of a nation of the wee fairyfolk whom Scotchmen call Brownies.

I’ll tell ye—the spiritual dwellers of the earth, the fairyfolk of our evening tale, have stolen the living body, and fashioned this cold and inanimate clod to mislead your pursuit.