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OT Re: You say EEther, I say EYEther
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| Jeff Waymouth wrote:
> Jeff Waymouth
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> cupra wrote:
<SNIP>[color=darkred]
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> Here in the US we call 'em gremlins, but I'm pretty sure they're the
> same species.......
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We have gremlins too - the diiference is the pixys and faeries *can* be good
to you if you treat them well!
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/2249
"Another less common legend, but one which is found elsewhere in England and
Scandinavia alike, is that of a ploughman who was at work in one of the
Sidwell fields. As he worked he heard what he took to be a child crying, and
lamenting that it had "broken its peel," round the barrow. The "peel" is the
long wooden shovel with which the bread is put into the old brick-ovens, but
the man went to see if he could find the child, whom he supposed must have
wandered from home. He could see no one, but on the side of the mound was
the broken peel, which he mended with string, being good natured, and
supposing that the child could not be far away. When he left work in the
evening he went to see if the peel had been recovered. It was gone, but in
its place was a cake hot from the oven of the grateful pixy."
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| Don Kelly 2007-05-23, 3:25 am |
| " cupra" <NOcupra.sSPAM@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Jeff Waymouth wrote:
> <SNIP>
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> We have gremlins too - the diiference is the pixys and faeries *can* be
> good to you if you treat them well!
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> http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/2249
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> "Another less common legend, but one which is found elsewhere in England
> and Scandinavia alike, is that of a ploughman who was at work in one of
> the Sidwell fields. As he worked he heard what he took to be a child
> crying, and lamenting that it had "broken its peel," round the barrow. The
> "peel" is the long wooden shovel with which the bread is put into the old
> brick-ovens, but the man went to see if he could find the child, whom he
> supposed must have wandered from home. He could see no one, but on the
> side of the mound was the broken peel, which he mended with string, being
> good natured, and supposing that the child could not be far away. When he
> left work in the evening he went to see if the peel had been recovered. It
> was gone, but in its place was a cake hot from the oven of the grateful
> pixy."
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What about Terry Pratchett's Pictsies? Give them a bit of scumble and they
will be very helpful.
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Don Kelly dhky@shawcross.ca
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