hillfolk
nounEtymology From hill + folk. In mythological sense, compare Danish bjergfolk, Norwegian bergfolk, Norwegian haugfolk, Swedish högfolk, Swedish bergfolk.
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Hillspeople.
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Arts, Folklore, History, Human sciences, Literature, Media, Publishing, Sciences Supernatural beings, such as a dwarves, that live beneath hills.
- The hill-folk that dwell in this mount are well known in all the villages round, and no one ever omits making a cross on his beer-barrels, for the Trolls are in the habit of slipping down from Hjulehöi to steal beer.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 187: