From the smallness of size of these early pipes has, I presume, arisen their common name of “Fairy Pipes,” varied sometimes into “Elfin Pipes,” “Mab Pipes,” “Danes Pipes,” etc. They are also sometimes called “Celtic” and “Old Man’s Pipes,” and I have heard them designated by the characteristic name of “Carls Pipes,” a name indicative of a belief in their ancient origin.[87] In Ireland, they are believed to have belonged to the _Cluricanes_, a kind of wild, mischievous fairy-demon, and when found are at once broken up by the superstitious “pisantry.” In England, they are said to have belonged to the fairies or “old men,” but, unlike their Irish brethren, our peasantry usually preserve them, and in some districts believe that a certain amount of good luck attends their possession. I have known one of these pipes carried about the person for years, and have heard its owner--a Peak-man--declare in his native dialect, on being asked to part with it, “Nay, a’d part wi’ a towth sowner!” A quantity of these “fairy pipes” were found in the parish of Old Swinford, Worcestershire, some few years ago, “and the country folks there had a tradition that it was a favourite spot for the resort of Queen Mab and her court, and that among other appendages of royalty was a fairy-pipe manufactory, of which these were the remains.” Broseley has been so long famous for its tobacco-pipes, that a “Broseley” is a term familiar to smokers all over the world. That this locality should have been chosen as the place _par excellence_ for their manufacture, is to be accounted for by the excellent clay of the district.