I'm researching a whole host of folklore for a future series (wait and see!) and this is fascinating, but so weird and morbid!

A 19th century (possibly Scottish) method of warding off fairies was to hang a pair of trousers off the end of the bed. In Wales, there's a water horse called Ceffyl Dŵr that entices people to ride on its back, flies into the sky and then dissolves, letting the rider fall to their death (why??) In parts of England, it was believed that pixies were the souls of children who had died before they were baptised, back in ye olde days of high child mortality.

And then there was something called 'witch bottles'. Often filled with pins, human hair and urine, they were concealed around the house to ward off witches. If I was a witch and saw a hairy pee bottle, I'd definitely avoid that house and its disgusting inhabitants, gross!!