A. K. Hamilton Jenkin records one of the last persons in his experience to profess a belief in the small people:
One of the last persons openly to profess a belief in the small people was a certain Sophie Dowick, an interesting old 'character', who died in the parish of Philleigh in 1928. Up to within a comparatively few years before her death she still clung to the quaint old crinoline dresses of her girlhood days. Throughout her latter years she boasted much of her nightly dealings with the small people, who had led her, so she affirmed, to the life-giving herbs which she might often be seen gathering on moonlight nights in the fields when the dew was on them.
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