Margaret Ann Courtney recalls this story from William Botterell concerning the warnings mothers gave their children:
Not long ago a woman of Moushal (a village near Penzance) told me that troops of small people, not more than a foot-and-a-half high, used, on moonlight nights, to come out of a hole in the cliff, opening onto the beach, Newlyn side of the village, and but a short distance from it. the little people were always dressed very smart, and if anyone came near them would scamper away into the hole. Mothers often told their children that if they went under the cliffs by night the small people would carry them away into 'Dicky Danjy's hole.'
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