Bluecap
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| Creature information | |
|---|---|
| Grouping | Mythological creature Fairy |
| Origin | |
| First attested | In folklore |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Region | England |
| Details | Mines |
A bluecap is a mythical fairy or ghost in English folklore that inhabits mines and appears as a small blue flame. If miners treat them with respect, the bluecaps lead them to rich deposits of minerals.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. Like knockers or kobolds, bluecaps can also forewarn miners of cave-ins. They are mostly associated with the Anglo-Scottish borders.[1]
Bluecaps were regarded as hard workers and it was said that they were expected to be paid a working man's wages, equal to those of an average putter (a mine worker who pushes the wagons). This payment was left in a solitary corner of the mine, and they would not accept any more or less than they were owed. The miners would sometimes talk of having seen a flickering bluecap settle on a full tub of coal, transporting it as though "impelled by the sturdiest sinews".Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Another being of the same type (though less helpful in nature) was called "Cutty Soames"[2] or Old Cutty Soames,[3] who was known to cut the rope-traces or soams by which the assistant putter was yoked to the tub.[2]
See also
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Citations
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- ^ Katherine Mary Briggs, The Fairies in English Tradition and Literature
- ^ a b Labour and the Poor in England and Wales, 1849–1851: Northumberland and Durham, Staffordshire, the Midlands, Jules Ginswick, Routledge, 1983, Template:ISBN, 9780714629605, pp. 65-66
- ^ Character Sketches Of Romance, Fiction And The Drama, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Marion Harland, The Minerva Group, Inc., 2004, Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN, page. 119
Bibliography
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Allen, J. (2005), Fantasy Encyclopedia, Kingfisher Publications
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Briggs, Katharine (1976), An Encyclopedia of Fairies, Pantheon Books, ISBN 0394409183
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