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That evening, after having forded two rivers full of trout and pike, called Alfa and Heta, we were obliged to spend the night in a deserted building worthy to be haunted by all the elfins of

Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

Tourraine, and all the country on the banks of the Loire, has a kind of popular mythology of its own; it is the land of fairies and elfins, and there is scarcely a glen, a grove, or a shady recess, but what has its tale belonging to it.

Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney

Subjecting peevish children to such a terrible ordeal as this must have ended often with a tragedy, but even in such cases superstitious mothers could easily persuade themselves that the destroyed infants were undoubtedly the offspring of elfins, and therefore unworthy of their fostering care.

Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen

The heron, the lang solemn fellow, kens o 'the greenwood fairies and the wood elfins, and the wild geese that squatter on the tap o' the Muneraw will croak to ye of the merry maidens and the girls o 'the pool.

The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907

When down among the blue-bell banks rose elfins three times three,

The Faery Foster-Mother 1895

It was designed specially for the placating of the little god-folk who from their number were addressed as _Kini o ke Akua_, the multitude of the little gods, and who were the counterparts in old Hawaii of our brownies, elfins, sprites, kobolds, gnomes, and other woodland imps.

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877

That evening, after having forded two rivers full of trout and pike, called Alfa and Heta, we were obliged to spend the night in a deserted building worthy to be haunted by all the elfins of

A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866

Then would he teach the elfins how to plait The rushy cap and crown, or sedgy ship;

The sabbath, with Sabbath walks, and other poems 1812

And, in thofe elfins 'ears, would oft deplore The times, when truth by popifh rage did bleed;

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

a lawless set of imps; the elfins, brownies, and kobolds of our fairy world were not "up to them" in wanton deviltry.

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877