Fairy Loaves in Suffolk

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fossil echinus fairies

Calling at a cottage in a retired lane in the parish of Carlton Colville, near this town, a few weeks since, I saw on the chimney-piece what appeared to be a fine specimen of fossil echinus, though disfigured by the successive coats of black lead used to give it a polish. … I was informed that it had been found on the land some twenty years before; that it was ‘a fairy loaf’; and that whoever had one of these loaves in the house would never want for bread. Lowestoft. E., ‘The East Anglian,’ or ‘Notes and Queries,’ edited by S. Tymms, vol. iii, p. 45,

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