On the Origin of Fairies: British fairies as ghosts, gods and elementals

What is the origin of fairy belief, and where do they come from?

Are they diminished forms of earlier pagan deities of celtic and classical antiquity? Are they elemental spirits that animate the natural world? Or are they spirits of the dead, whether recently deceased or long departed ancestors?

"Since the first decade of [the 20th] century the pursuit of the secret [of fairy origins] has been engaged in only fitfully by an exhausted and depleted corps of interpreters. It has become the philosopher’s stone of traditional science" or so says Lewis Spence, our main man of this particular episode and author of 'British Fairy Origins'.

Let's go!

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Sources:

'Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness' by Carole G. Silver
'British Fairy Origins' by Lewis Spence
'Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland' by Lady Francesca Speranza Wilde
'British Goblins' by Wirt Sikes
'Popular Romances of the West of England' by Robert Hunt,
Music:
Teller of the Tales by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4467-teller-of-the-tales
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Lost Frontier by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4004-lost-frontier
Theme: Nat Keefe with The Bow Ties - Dude, Where's My Horse

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