Английская Википедия:Bluecap

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A bluecap is a mythical fairy or ghost in English folklore that inhabits mines and appears as a small blue flame. If miners treat them with respect, the bluecaps lead them to rich deposits of minerals.Шаблон:Sfnp Like knockers or kobolds, bluecaps can also forewarn miners of cave-ins. They are mostly associated with the Anglo-Scottish borders.[1]

Bluecaps were regarded as hard workers and it was said that they were expected to be paid a working man's wages, equal to those of an average putter (a mine worker who pushes the wagons). This payment was left in a solitary corner of the mine, and they would not accept any more or less than they were owed. The miners would sometimes talk of having seen a flickering bluecap settle on a full tub of coal, transporting it as though "impelled by the sturdiest sinews".Шаблон:Sfnp

Another being of the same type (though less helpful in nature) was called "Cutty Soames"[2] or Old Cutty Soames,[3] who was known to cut the rope-traces or soams by which the assistant putter was yoked to the tub.[2]

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  1. Katherine Mary Briggs, The Fairies in English Tradition and Literature
  2. 2,0 2,1 Labour and the Poor in England and Wales, 1849-1851: Northumberland and Durham, Staffordshire, the Midlands, Jules Ginswick, Routledge, 1983, Шаблон:ISBN, 9780714629605, pp. 65-66
  3. Character Sketches Of Romance, Fiction And The Drama, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Marion Harland, The Minerva Group, Inc., 2004, Шаблон:ISBN, Шаблон:ISBN, page. 119