In Norfolk and Suffolk, a local version of the word 'fairies' is 'frairies'. Keightley (p.306) describes an interview with a Norfolk girl about the frairies. He says:

We once questioned a girl from Norfolk on the subject of Fairy-lore. She said she had often heard of and even seen the Frairies. They were dressed in white, and lived under the ground, where they constructed houses, bridges, and other edifices. It is not safe, she added, to go near them when they appear above ground.

[Motifs: F211.3; F236.1.3]