Cornish Fairies

A. K. Hamilton Jenkin adds that down to the end of the nineteenth century "dealings with the fairies continued to be not uncommon in the remote country places:"

A West Cornwall vicar told the writer not long ago since that an old lady living at Bone, near Penzance, used often to put out money for the small people on a certain rock in a field near her house. It was her proud boast that her gifts were regularly claimed by the fairies, for as she said, "by the morning the coins had always gone."

Jenkin, Cornwall and the Cornish, pages 252-253.