Tiddy Mun

Tiddy Mun was a bog spirit worshiped in Lincolnshire England, which supposedly had the ability to control floods.

Tiddy Mun's existence was first cited in June 1891, in an article by M. C. Balfour in the Journal of Folklore. She recalls a story told to her by an older person in the village who remembered a curse cast upon the town when they were a child because of the ditching and draining of the bogs and fens of Lincolnshire by the Dutch. The Faerie spirit is eventually placated by the town after they gather at midnight on a full moon, pour buckets of water back into the bog, and apologize for the damage to the spirit's bog where he lives [link].

The same spirit also appears in the story "Yarrow" by the fantasy author Charles de Lint.

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