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There is not a more generally received opinion, throughout the principality of Wales, than that of the existence of Fairies: amongst the commonalty it is, indeed, universal, and, by no means unfrequently, credited by the second ranks.
Fairies are said, at a distant period, "to have frequented Bussers-hill in St. Marys island; but their nightly pranks, aërial gambols, and cockleshell abodes, are now quite unknown."
"Evil spirits, called fairies, are frequently seen in several of the isles [of Orkney], dancing, and making merry, and sometimes seen in armour."