Englishman here, grew up with my grandmother telling me so many cautionary stories about fairies. During the Victorian era, we sanitized our folklore and made fairies into cherubic whimsical beings but there's a lot more authentic folklore out there that refers to 'the fair folk' as things to be avoided at best or placated at worst.
Englishman here, grew up with my grandmother telling me so many cautionary stories about fairies. During the Victorian era, we sanitized our folklore and made fairies into cherubic whimsical beings but there's a lot more authentic folklore out there that refers to 'the fair folk' as things to be avoided at best or placated at worst.
Ah that makes sense. I always found it slightly odd.