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YEATS endorses the #changeling as an alternative to the sorrows of human life (The Stolen Child 1886) #FolkloreThursday #FolkoreWords
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a #fairy hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand
FAIRIES BEHAVING BADLY Armed fey are seen warring with 'rere-mice' for their 'leathern wings', killing caterpillars as 'canker' & spearing a 'red hipped humble bee' in A Midsummer Night's Dream illustrated #ArthurRackham 1908. Hey fairies leave those bees alone! #FolkoreWords
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM illustrated by Arthur #Rackham 1908
Hobgoblin Puck despairs at humankind "'Lord what fools these mortals be" (Act III) & reveals his identity to a fairy "I am that merry wanderer of the night"(Act II)
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