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British and Irish fairy traditions include stories in which supernatural beings take a child or adult and leave a substitute behind. Changeling narratives could become explanations for illness, disability, failure to thrive or sudden…
Open archive record →A recurring fairy-lore motif describes people hearing music or dancing from a mound, field or distant place and being drawn towards it. In some versions they join the gathering, struggle to leave or discover…
Open archive record →In parts of Britain, prehistoric monuments and prominent earthworks later acquired reputations as fairy places or mounds. The archaeological structure and the supernatural explanation can belong to very different periods while occupying the same…
Open archive record →Museum Wales preserves oral testimony from Ifan Gruffydd, born in 1896, recalling childhood fear and fascination surrounding fairy stories on Anglesey. He remembered his mother warning him not to pass a particular boundary near…
Open archive record →British regional traditions preserve respectful collective names for fairy beings: the Good Folk, Good People, Fair Folk and People of Peace among them. Scottish Gaelic tradition includes expressions associated with Na daoine sìthe, while…
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