" Even Ferry-hill, a well-known stage between Darlington and
Durham, is evidently a corruption of "Fairy-hill." In Yorkshire a similar
story attaches to the sepulchral barrow of Willey How,[C] and in Sussex to
a green mound called the Mount in the parish of Pulborough.[D] The fairies
formerly frequented Bussers Hill in St. Mary's Isle, one of the Scilly
group.[E] The Bryn-yr-Ellyllon,[F] or Fairy-hill, near Mold, may be cited
as a similar instance in Wales, which must again be referred to.
[Footnote A: _Testimony of Tradition_, p. 142.]
[Footnote B: _Op. cit._, p. 56.]
[Footnote C: _Folk Lore_, ii. 115.]
[Footnote D: _Folk Lore Record_, i. 16 and 28.]
[Footnote E: _Ritson_, p. 62.]
[Footnote F: Dawkins, _Early Man in Britain_, p. 433.]
The pages of Keightley's work contain instances of hill-inhabiting fairies
in Scandinavia, Denmark, the Isle of Rugen, Iceland, Germany, and
Switzerland. It is not only in Europe, however, that this form of
habitation is to be met with; we find it also in America.
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