Sightings of Fairies & Their Kin
Fairy Wishes
Location: Wooler (Northumberland) - Pin Well, Horsdon Hill
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Well still present
Further Comments: By dropping a bent pin or money into this well, visitors to the well would appease the fairy which lived nearby, and maybe have their wish come true.
First added: 2016-04-23 | Last updated: 2016-04-23 | ID #12140
Butter Makers
Location: Worsthrone (Lancashire) - Jam Hole Well
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Fairies and other little folk would use this area to churn their milk into butter.
First added: 2003-10-06 | Last updated: 2003-10-06 | ID #4650
Bobby Griglans
Location: Zennor (Cornwall) - Area referred to as Trendraen Hill, although likely to be Trendrine Hill
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: 1869
Further Comments: A man cutting gorse on the hill discovered a thirty centimetre long fairy. The man took the fairy home and allowed his children to play with it, who named the creature Bobby Griglans. After a few days, the fairy's parents came to take it back, referring to the fairy as 'Skillywidden'.
First added: 2020-04-03 | Last updated: 2020-04-03 | ID #13644
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