The Disir are faeries that are usually female, and they are best known for haunting old houses like ghosts. (Some say they are actually ghosts and not real faeries, but they are not humanlike ghosts in any case if that is true.) They are always attached to a particular place, usually one or two rooms of a house or an old barn, occasionally a piece of furniture, but it will always be something a person used and loved. They are said to only make themselves known to related family members and are not associated with any kind of damage or unpleasantness.