What’s interesting is that despite the list being quite long, off the top of my head I can think of a dozen or more similar beings left off the list. It’s interesting how localized language (and folklore) was before mass media, and how certain types of names retain that diversity - though modern mass media popularized some names over others and caused them to come into common use nationwide*.
The English like to think of themselves as a particularly haunted people, with a thick layer of ghost (and fairy - there’s a lot of overlap) lore that hangs over the British isles as a whole. I wonder if that’s really true, if the cold, damp, dark environs really inspired a greater obsession with ghosts, or if it’s really just better documented than other parts of the world.
*And not just in folklore - in Italy, for example, there are extremely local names for certain recipes, where the food itself is made over a large region, but the names vary from village to village.
The wikipedia links are of varying relevance. In this case, given the context, it must be referring to fairy lore about changelings and child snatching.
