Editor’s Note: This story comes from Western Cornwall and Evans-Wentz’s work c. 1909.

‘I heard that a woman set out water to wash her baby in, and that before she had used the water the ‘small people’ came and washed their babies in it. She didn’t know about this, and so in washing her baby got some of the water in her eyes, and then all at once she could see crowds of ‘little people’ about her. One of them came to her and asked if she was able to see their crowd, and when she said ‘Yes,’ the ‘little people’ wanted to take her eyes out, and she had to clear away from them as fast as she could (182).