![]() In Dumfriesshire, a woman living at Auchencreath helped a faery neighbour one day by lending her some oatmeal. For example, at Arisdale on the Shetland island of Yell, an old woman travelling home late one dark night was helped by the trows: they blew into the air and it became as light as day. Just their breath alone can transfer their glamour. We tend, to day, to be attached to the idea of faeries carrying wands, but they don’t actually need them. In fact, I’m not concerned here in this post with halitosis, but with an intriguing facet of faery magic- the ability to change things simply by blowing upon them. His fetid breath inspires brutality and oppressive actions.” His character is manipulative and contagious he “loiters in lonely places and sullenly waits for his prey. ![]() In his 1998 book, Good Fairies, Bad Fairies, artist Brian Froud invented numerous humorously intended faery types, amongst which he included the ‘Bully Bogey,’ a being presumably in part derived from the bull-beggar of British tradition. ![]()
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