Other Origins: None known.
Other Names: Acorn Lady and Melsh Dick.
Element: Earth.
Appearance and Temperament: These are small dwarf faeries - Peg is a woman and Dick is a man. They wear the peasant clothing of fifteenth century England and their nature is very capricious.
Time Most Active: Spring through Autumn.
Lore: These faeries, two of a kind, love nuts of all sorts and will guard them by giving cramps and bloat those who take the fruit from the tree or plant they are watching over at any particular time.
Fortunately for us, they move around quite a bit and are never in one place for very long. If you go to pick a nut or nut fruit and feel a decided pinch, take it as a warning that these plants are being watched over.
They also guard orchards and can terrify fruit thieves.
Though Peg and Dick are both quite lazy themselves, they despise laziness in humans and are known to give a quick pinch to startle people out of their daydreams, or chase them to get their sluggish blood moving.
But since both Peg and Dick are somewhat arthritic, humans can easily outdistance them.
One explanation of the origin of these two faeries ties in with the folklore which says that nuts and certain fruits enhance human fertility.
So prized were they that these two faeries were sent to protect them. In this guise they may actually be devalued fertility deities associated with Bealtaine.
The fact that milk, fruit, and nuts (foods associated with the fertility Sabbat of Beltaine) are the only foods in their diet further establishes this link.
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