elf-arrow

In their caverns the fairies manufactured those elf-arrow heads with which the witches and they wrought so much evil.

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1885

The essayist fails not to mention the elf-arrow heads, which have something of the subtlety of thunderbolts, and can mortally wound the vital parts without breaking the skin.

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1885

Laskie Loncart, one of the assistant hags, produced two of what the common people call elf-arrow heads, being, in fact, the points of flint used for arming the ends of arrow-shafts in the most ancient times, but accounted by the superstitious the weapons by which the fairies were wont to destroy both man and beast.

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1885

They were so sure of this, that even when a stone arrow head -- such as our far-off ancestors used in hunting, when they were cave men -- was picked up off the ground, it was called an "elf bolt," or "elf-arrow."

Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885

In their caverns the fairies manufactured those elf-arrow heads with which the witches and they wrought so much evil.

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Walter Scott 1801

The essayist fails not to mention the elf-arrow heads, which have something of the subtlety of thunderbolts, and can mortally wound the vital parts without breaking the skin.

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Walter Scott 1801

Loncart, one of the assistant hags, produced two of what the common people call elf-arrow heads, being, in fact, the points of flint used for arming the ends of arrow-shafts in the most ancient times, but accounted by the superstitious the weapons by which the fairies were wont to destroy both man and beast.

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Walter Scott 1801

&c. and where ancient coins, battle-axes of all the three periods, urns and elf-arrow heads, Roman armour, &c., have been disinterred by the ordinary labours of the field.

Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852