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A sprite described in Northumberland fairy tales as a “queer-looking little auld man,” whose exploits are generally laid in the cellans of old castles.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.