Brewer's: Follets

Goblins of the north of France, who live in the houses of simple rustics, and can be expelled neither by water nor exorcism. They can be heard but are never seen. In the singular number, “esprit follet.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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