underground people
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]underground people pl (plural only)
- (folklore) Any of the fairy folk, trolls, dwarfs, or other supernatural beings, that primarily live underground.
- 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 281:
- The inhabitants of Rügen believe in three kinds of Dwarfs, or underground people, the White, the Brown, and the Black, so named from the colour of their several habiliments.
- 1872 November, Overland Monthly: Devoted to the Development of the Country, San Francisco, page 425, column 1:
- Gross superstition still prevails in most parts of Nordland, particularly regarding the underground people.