2026-04-14 20:25 UTC
in the 16-17C, after the literary model of fairy was more or less stable, interest in them and debate over their natures and whether and how they could be integrated into christian worldview only increased. around 1600 there were multiple court cases about con men who charged money for introduction to fairy 'kings' and 'queens'
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@tholindeth@wizzzard.online 2026-04-14 20:41
[beyond the scope of this article, but in the 18/19C the whole field of folklore studies emerged to collect, debate and interpret these fairy beliefs, which (this article argues) more than they represented archaic survivals of old legends or mythicized history, were largely the popular adoptions and iterations on those high medieval and early modern literary sources]