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And that's it for Faebruaryai - thanks for everyone that joined in on this with me. Maybe I'll run it again next year. Or maybe I'll be deep into something else then. Who knows? But I hope you all enjoyed it!

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2023-02-28

A heartbreaking thought is of mothers in times gone by, to avoid disgrace/ banishment from community for having baby out of wedlock, making use of the fairy baby/ Changeling narrative to abandon their babies to the fairies in the forest/ hill/ well.
Ilus. MA Attwell

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2020-05-31

The Boggart is a troublesome faerie who will run riot in your home, breaking crockery and making a mess. It is said that a helpful Brownie will become a Boggart is offended by an inappropriate gift.

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2020-05-31

A decade ago, published a deeply disquieting story about Mary A. Turzillo's "Bottle Babies" got so far under my skin that I later asked the 'pod's editors if I could join their production team. From the first paragraph on, the dread never lets up:

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2020-05-31

In 1317 the Bronach of Burren appeared at Lough Rasga, County Clare as Seean mac Craith records, washing the bodies of soldiers about to be killed in battle in blood. "She was thatched with elf locks, foxy grey and rough like heather, matted and like long sea-wrack"

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2020-05-31

Pooka can appear as a horse, dog, donkey, cat, bull, young man or even a voluptuous young woman. It loves to take a rider, usually someone worse for drink, and take them for a wild ride all night before depositing them in a ditch at dawn.

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2020-05-31

The Willo the Wisp is a treacherous and mischievous faerie who inhabits moors and bogs. Manifesting as a glowing orb of light, they delight in leading travellers astray so that they lose their path and wander onto unsafe ground.

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2020-05-31

1/8. Fairy doctors were Irish cunning-folk. White wizards of sorts, to their admirers. Fraudsters, to their detractors.

They were so named because, if you had fairy problems, they claimed to help. Some also said they got their powers from 'the good people'.

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2020-05-31

She took me to her Elfin grot,
And there she wept and sighed full sore,
And there I shut her wild wild eyes
With kisses four.
...
I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried—‘La Belle Dame sans Merci
Thee hath in thrall!’

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2020-05-31

Newfoundland fairies inflict injuries known as ‘blast’. In 1988, man jabbed on way home from post office, leg swelled, turned black and when cut open, out came bunches of grass and splinters of wood. Leg had to be amputated.
Illus Fitzgerald-The Artist’s Dream.

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2020-05-30

The Changeling is one of the most disturbing aspects of fairy lore, it says more about our society than fairies. ‘Legitimised’ infanticide, sad history of disability, a list of Changeling attributes can be seen as symptoms of a number of congenital birth disorders.

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2020-05-30

William Blake claimed to have seen a fairy funeral. He told how he had seen 'a procession of creatures of the size and colour of green and grey grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a rose-leaf, which they buried with songs, and then disappeared.'

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2020-05-30

DARE YOU ENTER A FAIRY RING? A fairy ring, elf circle, or pixie ring, is an uncanny arc of mushrooms. Upon entering you may become invisible & will be made to dance until you die of exhaustion 🎨 William Holmes Sullivan; W. J. Morgan

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2020-05-30

On one interpretation, that's what the story of the Green Children of Woolpit is about. The children come out of the ground in Suffolk, but are unable to return to fairyland. The green boy wastes away, but the green girl learns to simulate humanity

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2020-05-30

SCARY FOREST FAIRIES Knights are menaced by an array of in John Gilbert's The Enchanted Forest (1855); Fairies besiege and bewitch witch a peasant woman in an enchanted wood in a stunning painting by Russian artist Yulia Litvinova

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2020-05-30

Primitive mills did not have millers, and it was here that fairies began to be association with the buildings. I quote a case recorded by Lady Wilde in the 1880s in my new book

https://t.co/KBPVnAeNQs

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2020-05-30

Some fairies are murderous, such as the Redcaps who are said to haunt the Border peel towers. They try to redye their caps in human blood...#SuperstitionSat

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2020-05-30