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A name best known in the Scottish nursery rhyme:

There cam’ a man to oor toun To oor toun, to oor toun, There cam’ a man to oor toun An’ his name was Aiken Drum.

In more recent versions, the words have changed to “There was a man lived in the moon …” and Aiken Drum wears edible clothes: a cream cheese hat, a roast beef coat, and penny loaf buttons.

Aiken Drum is also the name given to the “Brounie [Brownie] of Blednoch” in the ballad by William Nicholson (1878). This fairy is naked except for a kilt made out of green rushes.