How do the villagers feel about the moor in the story, The Moorchild?

The villagers are afraid of the moor. For them, it holds hidden terrors in the form of bogeys, will-o-the-wisps who lure the unsuspecting to their death in the bogs, and the ever present Moorfolk who trick humans into the Mound where time stands still. The moor is to be avoided by any but the wandering shepherd or other loner, traveling through. The moor represents a forbidden place of magic and superstition.