This is a topic that has been consuming me lately. Some interesting links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Wilby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isobel_Gowdie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_Elphame
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunning_folk_in_Britain
Iv got some docs to watch too when I find the time.
The survival of fairy faith in folklore
Yes please
I have more time for listening than reading... any docs recommended by our man Luigi will be watched 100%
Topic is fascinating, stories of gnomes etc as well. I remember a vid that went on for 1.5 hours of just testimony from people in Iceland claiming stories of these things. It went on and on, perfectly sensible folk of various ages just telling it like any other thing. Still rattles in my head, super interesting.
I have more time for listening than reading... any docs recommended by our man Luigi will be watched 100%
Topic is fascinating, stories of gnomes etc as well. I remember a vid that went on for 1.5 hours of just testimony from people in Iceland claiming stories of these things. It went on and on, perfectly sensible folk of various ages just telling it like any other thing. Still rattles in my head, super interesting.
Just watched this one. Short but good:
Can any Irish people confirm if they still do the All Saints Day thing?
Can any Irish people confirm if they still do the All Saints Day thing?
This is at least 90% bullshit but still posting for fun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairyland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lfheimr
Not related but some cool stuff on stone-age hybrid creatures depicted in art that I found and feel like you guys would like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_t ... r%C3%A8res
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man
I do wonder though if these were part of a shamanic faith.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lfheimr
Not related but some cool stuff on stone-age hybrid creatures depicted in art that I found and feel like you guys would like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_t ... r%C3%A8res
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man
I do wonder though if these were part of a shamanic faith.
Canada doing us proud boys:
Could explain GSP's missing time. He was taken to Elfham.
Could explain GSP's missing time. He was taken to Elfham.
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Don't be selfish, preserve this world for the next generations.
I'll never long for what might have been
Regret won't waste my life again
I won't look back I'll fight to remain
Don't be selfish, preserve this world for the next generations.
I'll never long for what might have been
Regret won't waste my life again
I won't look back I'll fight to remain
To do a comparative analysis, I set my eye to Germany and the Grimm Brothers. For anyone who has read the links I posted or watched the videos, you will be shocked by the similarities. Even in 3 short stories all the quintessential traits are described:
https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm039.html
https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm039.html
From the previous material it was often mentioned that the idea of them being tiny and having wings and generally being strictly benevolent in modern depictions came from Victorian romance writers, influenced by the christian notion they were fallen angels, and previously they had been the small leprochaun like beings who could be either good or evil or neither. I recently read that the idea that they were short was popularized by shakespeares Midsummer Nights Dream, which became popular all through Europe. This makes sense to me, as the idea that they lived in hilly mounds and the name elf meant something like "white being" originally suggests they were ancestor spirits who arose from their burial mounds and mingled in nature. The idea of them being small seemed without explanation until now.
Also here is a Middle English attestation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Orfeo
And to bring post-viking age scandinavia into this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elveskud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpans_kraft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Brahes_Folio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skogsr%C3%A5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisse_(folklore)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neck_(water_spirit)
Ive also been recommended some literature thats not available online and will require shopping on amazon. I will have to remember to do so one day when I have more time, more money, and a girlfriend Elves, Wights and Trolls by Kveldulf Gundarsson seems to be the best book on it, while there are also various Scandinavian folk story compendiums to look at.
Also here is a Middle English attestation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Orfeo
And to bring post-viking age scandinavia into this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elveskud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpans_kraft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Brahes_Folio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skogsr%C3%A5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisse_(folklore)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neck_(water_spirit)
Ive also been recommended some literature thats not available online and will require shopping on amazon. I will have to remember to do so one day when I have more time, more money, and a girlfriend Elves, Wights and Trolls by Kveldulf Gundarsson seems to be the best book on it, while there are also various Scandinavian folk story compendiums to look at.
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