Morris-dancing Fairies Two accounts of Morris-dancing fairies in Wales.
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Chris Woodyard
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July 28, 2018
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Panics
and tagged Bodfari , Coblynau , Denbighshire , dwarfs , Edward Williams , Elias Owen , fairies , Morris Dancers , Morris Dancing , Morris-dancing Fairies , The Reverend Edmund Jones , Welsh fairies , Wirt Sikes
Harold the Goblin Boss Young Harold bosses a group of goblins at the bottom of the garden.
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Chris Woodyard
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June 12, 2018
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Victorian
and tagged elementals , fairies , fairies at the bottom of the garden , gnomes , Goblin Boss , goblins at the bottom of the garden , Harold the Goblin Boss , helpful elves , helpful goblins , helpful spirits , sprites , tutelary spirits
Tucked Up A narrator is tucked up by an invisible humming horde.
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Chris Woodyard
on
December 9, 2017
in Christmas , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News
and tagged alien abduction , auditory hauntings , bedroom invaders , Christmas ghost stories , Christmas paranormal , fairies , fairy abduction , Tucked Up
Christopher Crellius and the Savior of the Swamp Trapped in a swamp, the Polish theologian Christopher Crellius finds an unlikely savior in a mysterious small man.
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Chris Woodyard
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November 14, 2017
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , religion , Social History
and tagged Arian theology , Christopher Crellius , Christopher Crellius and the Savior of the Swamp , fairies , forest spirits , gnomes , Krzysztof Crell-Spinowski , Samuel Crellius , Unitarian expulsion from Poland , Unitarians
Green Jean Seen The legendary Green Jean of Wemyss Castle puts in an appearance.
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Chris Woodyard
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October 21, 2017
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Prophecies , Victorian
and tagged Countess of Munster , fae , fairies , green as a fairy color , green ghosts , Green Jean , Green Jean Seen , Green Ladies , Green Lady , Scottish ghosts , The Gentry , Wemyss Castle
Painting in the Dark with Raphael Painting in the dark was only part of the artistic talents of Mr. Abel Taylor, psychic artist, who worked under the influence of the painter Raphael.
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Chris Woodyard
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June 6, 2017
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Psychic Research , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Abel Taylor , automatic painting , fairies , Good Neighbors , Good People , healing , miracles , Painting in the Dark with Raphael , psychic artist , Raphael , Scottish folklore
The Fairy in the Box. A child, challenged by her skeptical sister to capture one of the little people she saw in her bedroom at night, catches a fairy in a box.
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Chris Woodyard
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May 20, 2017
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A Fairy in the Box , capturing a fairy , catching a fairy , catching a fairy in a box , fairies , Florence L. Barclay , The Fairy in the Box , The Little People
Past Praying For – Something Sinister in an Irish Field Sinister encounters with bizarre and fiery animals in an Irish field.
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Chris Woodyard
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January 31, 2017
in Animal Tales , Cryptozoology , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , religion , Spook Lights , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged barguests , Black Dogs , boggarts , Cornish Bear Monster , dragon , elementals , fairies , ghost of a dragon , Irish folklore , North Antrim , padfoot , Past Praying For - Something Sinister in a Field , Rev. Samuel Drew , souls in purgatory
The Little Man with the Soiled Handkerchief A little man haunts a sick woman, taunting her with his soiled handkerchief.
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Chris Woodyard
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January 24, 2017
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Spiritualism , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged carpenter of doom , elementals , fairies , fever hallucinations , hallucinations , little people , sickness , The Little Man with the Soiled Handkerchief
Feeding the Fairies After scaring away a child’s fairy playmates a coachman “has trouble” with the angry Little People.
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Chris Woodyard
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December 1, 2016
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , News , Panics , Social History
and tagged American fairies , Cleveland , fairies , fairy belief , fairy faith , feeding the fairies , gentry , Irish fairies , little people , placating the fairies , Rockefeller Park Cleveland Ohio