“There was once a farmhouse called Fern Glen. It was named for the glen which it stood on the edge of, and which anyone who wanted to visit the farm had to travel through. But this glen was believed to be the abode of a brownie. This fairy never appeared to anyone in the daytime, but was some- times glimpsed at night, stealing about like an ungainly shadow from tree to tree.”
Der Brownie von Fern Glen ist ein Schottisches Marchen, welches ich zur Weihnachtszeit 2022 illustriert habe. Der Brownie erscheint auf Seiten aus Transparentpapier, die ihn wie im Nebel erscheinen lassen und dem Buch eine spannende Haptik geben.
“Like all brownies who are properly treated and let alone, he would do any kind of work around the farm in return for a bowl of milk. The farmer often said that he did not know what he would do without him, for if there was any work to be finished in a hurry all that the farmer and his wife had to do was to leave the door of the barn open when they went to bed and put down a bowl of new milk on the doorstep.”
“In spite of all this, however, everyone about the farm was afraid of the brownie and would rather go a couple of miles round about in the dark than pass through the glen and run the risk of catching a glimpse of him. Only one person on the farm didn’t fear the brownie, and that was the farmer’s wife. She was good and gentle and wasn’t afraid of anything at all.”
