MANX FAIRY TALES BY SOPHIA MORRISON LONDON DAVID NUTT, 57-59 LONG ACRE 1911 PREFACE There is at least one spot in the world where Fairies are still believed in, and where, if you look in the right places, they may still be found, and that is the little island from which these stories come--Ellan Vannin, the Isle of Mann. But I have used a word which should not be mentioned here--they are never called Fairies by the Manx, but Themselves, or the Little People, or the Little Fellows, or the Little Ones, or sometimes even the Lil' Boys. These Little People are not the tiny creatures with wings who flutter about in many English Fairy tales, but they are small persons from two to three feet in hei…
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