Editor’s Note: This anecdote dates to the early nineteenth century and Northumberland.

I never met with any one who could positively assert that he had either received benefit or injury from the fairies, or who had ever witnessed their revels; though I have heard several persons tell of fairies having been seen by their immediate ancestors. I however knew an old man whose dog had pointed a troop of fairies; and though they were invisible to himself yet he plainly heard their music, sounding like a fiddle and a pair of very small pipes. He believed that they were dancing under a small green hillock in the direction of which the dog pointed (Chatto 106).