📂Folklore Files: Elf-Shot
How Northern English Folk Believed Invisible Elves attacked, and sometimes killed.
In the windswept moors of Northumberland, Northern England, a woman woke in the night screaming — her leg in agony, the flesh red, swollen and hot, yet with no visible wound. “The elves have found her,” the neighbours whispered. “Struck by elf-shot.”
They would have known what to do: bring rowan, burn herbs, hang iron at the bedstead. To them, the world …
