See also:

• ELF
• ELF (O. Eng. aelf; cf. Ger. Alp, nightmare)

ELF (O. Eng. aelf; cf. Ger. See also:

• ALP

Alp, nightmare)  , a diminutive supernatural being of See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology, usually of a more or less mischievous and See also:

• MALIGNANT (Lat. malignus, evil-disposed, from maligenus)

malignant See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, causing diseases and evil dreams, stealing See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children and substituting changelings, and thus somewhat different from the Romanic See also:

• FAIRY (Fr. fee, faerie; Prov. facia; Sp. hada; Ital. fata; med. Lat. fatare, to enchant, from Lat. fatum, fate, destiny)

fairy, which usually has less sinister associations . The prehistoric arrow-heads and other See also:

• FLINT
• FLINT, AUSTIN (1812-1886)
• FLINT, or FLTNTSHTRE (sir Gallestr)
• FLINT, ROBERT (1838- )
• FLINT, TIMOTHY (1780-1840)

flint implements were in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early known as " See also:

• ELF
• ELF (O. Eng. aelf; cf. Ger. Alp, nightmare)

elf-bolts " or " elf-arrows," and were looked on as the weapons of the elves, with which they injured See also:

• CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle . So too a tangle in the See also:

• HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair was called an " elf-See also:

• LOCK (from the O. Eng. loc.; the word appears, in different forms, in many Teutonic languages, but with such various meanings as " hole," Ger. Loch, " lid," Swed. lock, &c.; probably the original was a root meaning " to enclose ")
• LOCK, MATTHIAS

lock," as being caused by the See also:

• MISCHIEF

mischief of the elves .