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The working title of this book was For Fear of Little Men.

From The Fairies, by Irish poet William Allingham (1850):

Up the airy mountain, down the rushy glen

We dare not go a-hunting for fear of little men


The Nac Mac Feegle appear to be very Scottish in nature. Terry says:

“Um. The Nac Mac Feegle are not Scottish. There is no Scotland on Discworld. They may, in subtle ways, suggest some aspects of the Scottish character as filtered through the media, but that’s because of quantum.”

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