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* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s Nac Mac Feegle, a race of belligerent, six-inch tall, red-haired, kilt-wearing blue men (also known as pictsies) were rumoured to have been thrown out of Fairyland for being drunk and disorderly. This trope is even more perfectly exemplified in ''[[Discworld/Wintersmith|Wintersmith]]'', the third book featuring them, where they {{spoiler|accompany the young man Roland to the Underworld to rescue the goddess Summer. Roland gets across the river Styx by paying [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] the classical two pennies, but when he retrieves Summer and wants to cross back the other way, Death demands another six pence, which Roland doesn't have. However, when the Feegles say that if Roland stays, they're obligated to stay with him, the ferryman quickly changes his mind and lets them go.}}

** Also, there's a wonderfully cool scene in ''[[Discworld/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]'', where Granny Weatherwax is about to march off into the woods after the Magpyrs. Mightily Oates (a visiting Omnian priest quite unaware of [[Never Mess with Granny|Granny's reputation]]) asks the villagers:

** In ''[[Feet of Clay (novel)|Feet of Clay]]'', [[Mugging the Monster|a gang takes Angua hostage]]. Their injuries are reported as [[Too Dumb to Live|"self-inflicted"]].