[1] A man, woman, girl, and little dog lived in a house made of hempstalks.
Then the Hobyahs tore down the house, ate the old man and woman, and carried off the girl in a bag.
A man heard her crying and took her home, putting his big dog in the sack.
Jacobs noted that the Hobyahs, though now destroyed, resembled "the bogies or spirits of the comma bacillus".
Provides the imagery for the protagonist's fantasies in the Australian film Celia (1989), directed by Ann Turner.