User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 440: God Serena, Review and Commentary/@comment-5303512-20150615221357

I just realized something Very interesting that might relate to Lumen Histoire that I think people should hear!

The name of the Albareth Emperor Spriggan is named after a legendary creature from the Cornish Fairy Myths in England.

Spriggans were depicted as grotesquely ugly, and were said to be found at old ruins and barrows guarding buried treasure and generally acting as fairy bodyguards. They were also said to be busy thieves. Though usually small, they had the ability to swell to enormous size (they were sometimes speculated to be the ghosts of the old giants).

Certainly their disposition was poor, and they caused mischief to those who offended them. They sent storms to blight crops, and sometimes stole away mortal children, leaving their ugly changelings in their place. In one story, an old woman got the better of a band of spriggans by turning her clothing inside-out (turning clothing supposedly being as effective as holy water or iron in repelling fairies) to gain their loot.