"elf-folk" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From elf + folk.",
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      "form": "elf-folks",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1851, Benjamin Thorpe, Northern Mythology, volume II, London: Edward Lumley, page 117:",
          "text": "Good care must be taken to prevent cattle from grazing where the Elf-folk have been; for if an animal come on a place where they have either spat or done worse, it will be seized with grievous complaints, which can be remedied only by giving them to eat a handful of St. John's wort, gathered on St. John's night at twelve o'clock.",
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        "All elves, considered as a people."
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