The ‘green sour ringlets,’ frequently found on pasture land, are believed to be made by them; and the fairy dwelling is supposed to exist under the area bordered by the dark circle. In the parish of Brington is one of these, which has attained such great local celebrity as to be called, par excellence, ‘the fairies’ ring.’ It is believed to have existed from the earliest times, and to have resisted all the efforts of the plough to efface it, which, notwithstanding the awful calamities constantly attending such sacrilegious attempts, have, it is said, often been made. Village traditions relate that by running round it nine times on the first night of the full-moon sounds of mirth and revelry may be heard proceeding from the subterranean abode. Sternberg, 137