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Baring Gould (the werewolf guy) also acknowledges fairies and fairy worlds does not have the same fear in his lifetime as previous generations, asking if in the future there would be a bacterial Midsummer Night's Dream as trad beliefs fade
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Current images of fairy in contemp culture are based off the JM Barrie's Tinkerbell, laterly filtered through Disney. Very few have a grotesque appearance, and are not dangerous
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Warner's ideas of Phantasmagoria puts a duplicity on sight and vision, with illusion being aligned with the devil in certain circumstances
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Finally we have @monicagermana with The Perpetual Hauntings of Borderland Creatures: Finfolks and Selkies in European and Inuit Tales of the Sea
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Opium used as a way to 'travel' to these landscapes, a chaotic hallucination. Intensified colours 'hold a flavour' in which could be translated to art
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Yet Melusine's mother encourages her to reject her fairy heritage and instead choose humanity. She is determined not to be reduced merely as a beautiful object. But she can only turn into half a snake because of her human passion
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In the Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves play, a wicked demon of the black forest seeks to kill him, but a fairy of the waters aids him. These additions don't detract from the main story, and it concludes with a celebratory dance between fairies and nature spirits
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