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Fairies weren’t always cute
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<blockquote data-quote="Grouchy Old Man" data-source="post: 223222" data-attributes="member: 10678"><p>When most people think about fairies, they perhaps picture the sparkling Tinker Bell from Peter Pan or the other heartwarming and cute fairies and fairy god mothers that populate many Disney movies and children’s cartoons. But these creatures have much darker origins - and were once thought to be more like undead blood-sucking vampires.</p><p></p><p>In <a href="https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sce/index.htm" target="_blank">The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies</a> (1682), folklorist <a href="https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/12/the-supernatural-worlds-of-robert-kirk-fairies-beasts-landscapes-and-lychnobious-liminalities/" target="_blank">Robert Kirk</a> argued that fairies are “the dead”, or of “a middle nature betwixt man and angels”. This association is particularly prominent in Celtic lore. Writing in <a href="https://www.libraryireland.com/AncientLegendsSuperstitions/Contents.php" target="_blank">1887</a>, <a href="https://www.dib.ie/biography/wilde-jane-francesca-agnes-speranza-a9035" target="_blank">Lady Jane Wilde</a> popularised the Irish belief that:</p><p></p><p></p><p>At first sight the current innocent idea of fairyland seems as far away from the shadowy realms of the dead, and yet there are many resemblances between them. Despite their wands and glitter, fairies have a dark history and surprisingly gothic credentials. So why did we lose our fear of fairies and how did they come to be associated with childhood? </p><p></p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/fairies-werent-always-cute-they-used-to-drink-human-blood-and-kidnap-children-170305" target="_blank">fairies-werent-always-cute-they-used-to-drink-human-blood-and-kidnap-children-170305</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grouchy Old Man, post: 223222, member: 10678"] When most people think about fairies, they perhaps picture the sparkling Tinker Bell from Peter Pan or the other heartwarming and cute fairies and fairy god mothers that populate many Disney movies and children’s cartoons. But these creatures have much darker origins - and were once thought to be more like undead blood-sucking vampires. In [URL='https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sce/index.htm']The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies[/URL] (1682), folklorist [URL='https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/12/the-supernatural-worlds-of-robert-kirk-fairies-beasts-landscapes-and-lychnobious-liminalities/']Robert Kirk[/URL] argued that fairies are “the dead”, or of “a middle nature betwixt man and angels”. This association is particularly prominent in Celtic lore. Writing in [URL='https://www.libraryireland.com/AncientLegendsSuperstitions/Contents.php']1887[/URL], [URL='https://www.dib.ie/biography/wilde-jane-francesca-agnes-speranza-a9035']Lady Jane Wilde[/URL] popularised the Irish belief that: At first sight the current innocent idea of fairyland seems as far away from the shadowy realms of the dead, and yet there are many resemblances between them. Despite their wands and glitter, fairies have a dark history and surprisingly gothic credentials. So why did we lose our fear of fairies and how did they come to be associated with childhood? [URL='https://theconversation.com/fairies-werent-always-cute-they-used-to-drink-human-blood-and-kidnap-children-170305']fairies-werent-always-cute-they-used-to-drink-human-blood-and-kidnap-children-170305[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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