Farfadet - Found all throughout France but most common in the regions of Vendée and Poitou, these grotesque faeries are thought to be similar to diminutive leprechauns or imps, being roughly half a meter tall and often seen either naked or wearing tattered brown clothes. They are usually helpful, performing agricultural tasks in exchange for offerings of milk or cream, but can also be mischievous, creating elf-locks in horses' manes. Strangely, they will be frightened away by too much kindness.
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