Faerie Euphemisms

                           Other Names for the Faerie

                          Fays - early form of the word
                     Fair Family/Fair Folk - Welsh nickname
                      Farisees/Pharisees - Suffolk nickname
                         Fary - Northumberland nickname
                         Fees - Upper Brittany nickname
                  Feriers/Ferishers - another Suffolk nickname
                     Frairies - Norfolk and Suffolk version
                  Good Neighbors - Scottish and Irish nickname
                   Good People - Irish reference to the Sidhe
          The Green Children - faerie reference in medieval literature
                    Greencoaties - Lincolnshire Fen version
                         Greenies - Lancashire nickname
              The Grey Neighbors - Shetland nickname for the Trows
                Henkies - Orkney and Shetland nickname for Trows
                          Klippe - Forfarshire nickname
                          Li'l Fellas - Manx nickname
                        The Old People - Cornish nickname
                 People of Peace - Irish reference to the Sidhe
                Pigsies/Piskies - Cornwall variations of Pixies
                      Sith/Si - Gaelic variations of Sidhe
              Sleigh Beggey - Manx language version of Little Folk
                The Small People of Cornwall - Cornwall variation
                     Still-Folk - Scottish Highland version
       Themselves/They/Them that's in it - Manx replacements for "faerie"
                      Verry Volk - Gower (Wales) nickname
                     Wee Folk - Scottish and Irish nickname