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Hobs & helpers

Invisible smiths, hobs and brownies who work unseen, for a coin or a bowl of cream, and vanish if they're found out.

Hobs & helpers · Ghosts · County DurhamHob Headless and the Stone by the RoadA headless sprite haunted the road to Neasham until he was laid under a stone, and whoever sits on that stone can never get up again.Read the tale Hobs & helpers · YorkshireHobhole Hob of Runswick BayA kindly hob lived in a cave by the sea, and if your child had whooping cough, you knew just where to take them.Read the tale Hobs & helpers · OxfordshireWayland, the Invisible SmithLeave your horse and a coin at the old stones, and come back to find it shod by a smith nobody ever saw.Read the tale