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Re: Hobbits, Austronesians, and Creoles

From:Michael Poxon <m.poxon@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 21:48
This reminds me of the Menehune (Hawai'i) who were also supposedly small
people. Apparently an early census had about 60 people in a remote valley
giving their race as being menehune. But I think all this stuff about the
Irish "little people" came along with non-celts.
Mike
> > well, to play devil's advocate (or not), what "hobbits" existed in early > > Ireland and such places, to start legends of "little people" there? >
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