[alloysteel]

The Picts are still there. They live in the hedgerows, and under piles of stones, and at the back of the sties and coops and byres. They are the Little People, the elves, the leprechauns, the gnomes. Their land overwhelmed by the flame-haired, fair-skinned Germanic Kelts, the few remaining indigenous Picts were forced into slavery, their homes and families and goods scattered and obliterated.

The black Irish, the shanty dwellers, the Irish and Welsh underclass still exist. They labored in mines, as galley slaves on ships, as beasts of burden for other stronger, smarter, and wealthier residents of the land.

The indignities visited upon the North American Indians were practiced first upon the Picts. But no reservations were ever established for the Picts, and they never developed casinos.

[Eala]

The Picts are still there.

IMHO likely. Lallans Scots, nae doot.

[Pilsner]

They are the Little People, the elves, the leprechauns, the gnomes.

Historian Emil Ludwig, in his book about the Nile, recounted some of the tales central Africans told about the pygmies, who shared their lands, and wondered if the very similar European tales about the leprechauns (by whatever name in a particular country)were folk memories of vanished ethnic groups of small stature.