Thankyou Hob. I think there's more to these fairy stories than meets the eye. I know they're often associated with stones and barrows - you might say people are attributing their building to other races (as they do with the Danes or the Romans) - but, what if the fairies were already there when prehistoric people put up the stones? Ie it's the places themselves.

Or shall I just go and lie down in a darkened room.