In The Netherlands, a term for the movement among lower-middle-class Protestants for social, political, and religious emancipation in the second half of the 19th-c. They represented the orthodox wing of the Dutch Reformed Church and favoured free churches and free schools. They formed a virtual political party, led by Abraham Kuyper, based on the ideas of Groen van Prinsterer, producing the paper De Standaard. The Patrimonium Association was founded in 1877, and in 1879 the Anti-Revolutionary Party was formed and the Free University opened in 1880. They seceded from the church in 1886 (doleantie), and had really attained all their expressed and implicit objectives by the second decade of the 20th-c.
The Native peoples of North America told legends of a race of "little people" who lived in the woods near sandy hills and sometimes near large bodies of water such as the Great Lakes.
Native Legends often talk of the little people playing pranks on people such as singing and then hiding when an inquisitive person searches for the music. It is often said that the little people love children and would take them away from bad/abusive parents or if the child was without parents and left in the woods to fend for themselves.
Other legends say the little people if seen by an adult human would beg them not to say anything of their existence and would reward those who kept their word by helping them and their family out in times of need.
From tribe to tribe there are variations of what the little people's mannerisms were like, and whether they were good or evil may be different.
One of the common beliefs is that the little people create distractions to cause mischief.
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