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Fairies | Three Ravens Bestiary #26
For the final episode in our 26 part A-Z of mythical creatures we're slipping into some liminal spaces to talk about Fairies!
Starting with the question of what even is "a fairy" and how did that word come to be?
Should we think of them as handsome and seductive, like in the Romantasy genre, or as nature spirits that need feeding with human blood, via your sourdough starter?
Do we still identify with the pagan idea of fairies shaping human destiny as they fancy, or the post-Reformation concept of the fairy as a form of beautiful ghost seeking to lead us to damnation?
For most people today…
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