The Sussex people in this neighbourhood can teil you many stories of smugglers, and not a few of fairies — who, by the by, they will persist in calling ‘Pharisees!’ This is probably a confusion of terms. But it comes in perpetually. ‘The Pharisees dance of a night’they say, and ‘the little people know the secrets.’ Elizabeth Hope, English homes and villages, Kent and Sussex (1909), 143