{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/prwe/prwe036.htm","path":"neu/celt/prwe/prwe036.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/prwe/prwe036.htm","text":"THE FAIRY FAIR IN GERMOE.\nBAL LANE in Germoe was a notorious place for piskies. One night Daniel Champion and his comrade came to Godolphin Bridge,--they were a little bit \"overtook\" with liquor. They said that when they came to \"Bal Lane,\" they found it covered all over from end to end, and the Small People holding a fair there with all sorts of merchandise--the prettiest sight they ever met with. Champion was sure he saw his child there; for a few nights before, his child in the evening was as beautiful a one as could be seen anywhere, but in the morning was changed for one as ugly and wizened as could be; and he was sure the Small People had done it. Next day, telling the story at Croft Gothal, his comrade was knocked backward, thrown into the bob-pit, and just killed. Obliged to be carried to his home, Champion followed, and was telling of their adventure with the Small People, when one said, \"Don't speak about them; they 're wicked, spiteful devils.\" No sooner were the words uttered than the speaker was thrown clean over stairs and bruised dreadfully,--a convincing proof to all present of the reality of the existence of the Small Folks.","title":"The Fairies: The Fairy Fair in Germoe","type":"page"}