You're a fad, that means you're something that we've already had, but once you're gone, you don't come back.

Then by careful comparison they constructed a genealogy, finally deriving the outline of the ur-form, from which all other variants stemmed.

Animal sign is the key to eliminating guesswork when setting your traps. Only trap where there is sign. Sign is anything the animal leaves as a trace that indicates it may have passed through the area.

But when she desired an old riven oak to be cut down an oak in which the good people (fairies) loved to assemble — because it impeded some favourite view, the poor old woman almost went mad, […]