Don't Mess with the Fairies

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Arts, Science Fiction, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Forget Tinkerbell or those Victorian paintings of spritely pixies with wings. Traditional fairy folklore is much darker and weirder. Irish storytellers Philip Byrne, Helena Byrne, Eddie Lenihan, and professor Martha Bayless explore how fairy folklore dominated Celtic culture for centuries, and why belief in fairies is not an unreasonable way of understanding the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to meditation mindset. Time spent alone is the most important.
0:06.3	Sir, are you still in the bath?
0:08.3	Yes, I'm listening to my podcast.
0:10.8	Can I come in?
0:12.0	No, no, no!
0:13.4	Just need to grab the core clipers. Don't worry, I'll cover my eyes.
0:16.6	What? Whoa!
0:19.0	Come on, we're gonna fall for you.
0:22.6	I'm still not looking.
0:24.2	And I'm not listening to my podcast.
0:26.8	Don't want batting.
0:28.1	Meir-hatting.
0:29.2	Simple, huh?
0:31.2	There's a pretty well-known news report from the BBC in the 1960s.
0:36.6	It's about a roadway that's being built in Ireland.
0:39.9	People lived nearby were upset because they believe that the road
0:44.4	would go through a bush that had long been claimed by the fairies.
0:49.5	And the reporter does the whole thing with a straight face, although he probably thinks
0:53.3	this is kind of absurd.
0:55.3	And at one point he asks a woman,
0:57.8	have you ever seen a fairie yourself?
0:59.6	No, I didn't, but my mother has so one in her young days.
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