Much like the abbey lubber, these spirits live in the cellars of miserly people. Similar creatures include urisks, tomte, heinzelmannchen, and domovoi.īuttery Sprites: England. They may play pranks on sloppy or lazy humans. Small elves who clean houses and can be banished with gifts of clothes or wages.
A sprite that inhabited either a house or a field, a marsh, a hole in the ground, or a sharp turn on a road.
Le Folk-lore de France, Tome Deuxième: La Mer et les Eaux Douces. The people of Guernsey are supposedly of shorter stature because of their ancestry. However, they still visited invisibly at night to do housework, like brownies and other house-elves. The Arragousets lived with their new wives for many years, fathering children, and then mysteriously left overnight. Only one man and boy survived by hiding in an oven for years. According to legend, a massive army of tiny men emerged one day from a cave and went all over the island, killing all the men and claiming their wives and homes. Similarly-named spirits were the lubber fiend or Lob-lie-by-the-fire.Īrragousets, sarragousets : the west coast of Guernsey. Spirits that live in wine cellars and kitchens, especially in abbeys or monasteries where the monks were gluttonous.
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