Oisin

The last of the Fianna warriors in Ireland, Oisin was a marvelous poet and singer who was also skilled and courageous in battle. St Patrick tried to convert Oisin to Christianity but he wanted no part of a Heaven in which there was no fighting or hunting.

Old Man of Cury

He saved the life of a stranded mermaid and she granted him three wishes in return. He was a wise old man who never accepted her offer of visiting her underwater.

Pechs

See Picts.

They lived in the Lowlands of Scotland and were said to be about three feet tall. They could build a castle overnight simply by passing the stones from one to the other.

Peg O'Nell

She is a water spirit who claims a new life every seven years because she was sent out on a dark night to fetch some water and fell to her death.

Peg Powler

She is a water demon who inhabits the River Tees. See also Nursery Bogies.

People of Peace

Like the Daoine Sidhe of Ireland, these are trooping fairies who live under green hills in Middle Earth.

If Phouka is treated well, he will remember you and your family for years. If not, he will be more than happy to bestow an unlimited supply of practical jokes.

See pixies.

They are mischievous fairies in Somerset, Devon and Cornwall. They are generally very small, very helpful and behave much like Brownies. Also known as Piskies. See also Seelie Court.

Puck loves a good joke but is not one to make it hurtful. See also Phouka.

These are wicked fairies who live in the Border country between England and Scotland. He will dye his cap red with the blood of his victims but he cannot attack if a cross is held up to him.

These are seals, fairy people who use seal-skins to travel about underwater. They never avenged themselves, even when mortals killed their people. See also the Selkies and the Merrows.

Robin Goodfellow

The most famous of the Hobgoblins, he was the son of Oberon, King of the Fairies, and a beautiful mortal.

The 'blessed' fairies were in the Seelie Court and traveled in troops, doing good where it was needed and playing jokes on those who deserved them. See also Unseelie Court.

These are the seal-people of Orkney and Scotland. A mortal might marry a Selkie woman if he could hide her seal-skin. See also the Roane.

Shock

This is a bogie-beast who will appear as a horse, a donkey, a large dog or a calf. They are frightening as well as dangerous.

Silky

Brownies are mostly males but Silkies behave just like them and are all females.

Skillywidden

He was a very young fairy who was found by a farmer when he was working in the fields. He resolved to keep him so he could find the entrance to Fairyland but his children helped him to escape. The farmer did not punish his children because he knew it was best for the fairy family to be reunited.

Spriggans

Bodyguards to the fairies, these bogies were ugly and they were fierce fighters. It is said that they are the ghosts of the giants who were killed when England was first invaded. See also the Fairies on the Eastern Green

Tankerabogus

See Knockers.

These are like the trolls of Scandinavia but they aren't as malicious. They share a fear of the sun and must hide if trapped above-ground during daylight hours.

Tylweth Teg

These are the fairy people of Wales. Mortals might visit Fairyland and even take a fairy bride but time passes on a different scale there and one might emerge to find that centuries have passed. See also Bendith y Mamau.

This is the Scottish name for the fairies who torment and and hurt mortals. See Seelie Court for the good fairies of Scotland. See also Duergars, Nuckelavee, and Redcaps.

Urisks

They are Scottish brownies who look much like satyrs and live generally solitary lives. They sometimes get lonesome for company and will follow travelers but they mean no harm.

Wild Edric

He lived during the time of William the Conqueror and he took a fairy bride. When she agreed to marry him, she said that he must never grudge her time spent with her sisters. He honored that request for many years but one day slipped when he couldn't find her after a hunt. As a result, she disappeared, just as she said she would but it is said that they joined again after he died and that they still ride through the forests on the Welsh border.