It was the day before Halloween, October 30, 1908, and Major Sylvester of the Washington D.C. Police was fed up! He ordered ...
The Brownies, drawn by Palmer Cox, are almost unknown to anyone younger than 80 today, but they were favorites of children from 1883 into the 1930s. The Brownies were tiny fairies, all male, who each ...
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Fairies, brownies, gnomes, elves and hobbits live in the Enchanted Garden in Poway, and many of them have fanciful stories about their lives and livelihoods. Those stories are usually told by their ...