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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"So sparrows are not acute and crafty birds but that behave in an idiotic manner!" Charles writing to Arthur Butler on 9 May 1877 https://t.co/AQTh6VrqNJ Passer domesticus, house sparrow by William MacGillivray (1796-1852)

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Καλημέρα και καλό μήνα.Edwin Austin Abbey (April 1, 1852–August 1, 1911) was an American painter

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"We see represented in him genius of a high order ... a versatile fancy, a poetic perception of beauty, a quaint, delicate humor, a wonderful grasp of whatever is weird and mysterious" (S.G.W. Benjamin)
1852: Painter of Shakespearean & Arthurian scenes Edwin Austin Abbey

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Oda with Lamp.
Christian Krogh.
Norwegian (1852 - 1925)

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マツゲ=ワスレトルヤン(1852-1903、フィンランド)

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Carl Brandt (1852 - 1930)
Segelfartyg i gryning

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➡️Dame brodant la bannière, 1911.
➡️Vox Populi, 1904.
Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922), peintre anglais.

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Two women on veranda overlooking the sea
Marcel Rieder
1852-1942

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people as butterflies, by amedee varin (1852)

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Edmund Leighton (1852–1922) :
- The Dedication (1908)

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다들 오늘도 힘찬 하루 되세요~

오늘의 짤 Picture Art By. 길섭1852, Presented For.

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Leon Wyczółkowski (Polish, 1852-1936)

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Théophile Gautier
Émaux et Camées (1852) Premier sourire du printemps

"Tandis qu'à leurs œuvres perverses
Les hommes courent haletants,
Mars qui rit, malgré les averses,
Prépare en secret le printemps"

Giboulées de mars "A Year with the Fairies"
Anna M. Scott - M.T. Ross

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アルフレッド・アーサー・ブルネル・ド・ノイヴィル(Alfred-Arthur Brunel de Neuville 1852–1941)
フランスの画家。
20代で人気の動物・静物画家となり、生涯を通じて人気があった。Ronner-Knipの影響を受けれおり、 Léon Bazille Perrault の弟子。

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The Death of Richard II (1852) by Richard Dadd (UK, 1817-1886). Produced whilst Dadd was in a mental institution.

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