[Another poster has recounted finding moundlike huts in the woods homeless people have been living in, and BumblingBear suggests that the inhabitants don't like steel. A third poster asks BumblingBear if he thought they were fairies.]

Indeed.

I don't truly fear anything anymore, but I have a healthy dose of respect for spirits and the wee people ... if they are not related.

I keep a shotgun handy for human predators and a named sword with Psalm 144:1 etched on it by a Bible for predators of the supernatural variety.