Researching Irish fairies: a jolly pastime?

I find it nerve-shredding. 'Changeling' children, abused in violent exorcisms. Bereaved folks crying at the crossroads, calling for their dead to return from fairyland. And the public hanging of 'John the Fairyman' at Kilkenny in 1852.

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MARGARET TARRANT & FAIRIES Margaret Tarrant (1888–1959) was an English illustrator & children's author. In the 1920s, Tarrant produced a long-running series of titles on the theme of The Forest Fairies, The Twilight Fairies & The Pond Fairies (below)

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This month in Signs as Fairies: Aries!🔥🔥

"Quick, sharp fairies who use fire as a defense, conjuring embers to set small things, then villages on fire when angered, leaving a trail as they fly away..."

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funny fairies: (exist)
me: :)

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Happy Midsummer from ! Dr Johnson, in his Preface to Shakespeare (1765), talks of ‘the loves of Theseus and Hippolyta combined with the Gothic mythology of fairies’, so here's some Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing by William Blake, c. 1786

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i stopped being a goober and went ahead and put mwdh charms for preorder on my shop! RT appreciated n.n

Crystal Warriors
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Fairies: https://t.co/f4thgTpZ6b

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Coming soon... FLOWER FAIRIES: BOTANICAL MAGIC, a collection of original illustrations by Cicely Mary Barker, sponsored by . Opens on the 8th August at the Garden Museum.

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