{"id":1508,"date":"2025-05-28T16:51:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindfckd.co.uk\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2025-06-06T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:27:09","slug":"the-hidden-folk-unearthing-the-ways-of-the-faerie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/mindfckd\/2025\/05\/28\/the-hidden-folk-unearthing-the-ways-of-the-faerie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Folk: Unearthing the Ways of the Faerie\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What if the tales were true? What if faeries have existed all this time and we just weren’t aware?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faeries or fairies are often introduced to us as small human-like beings with wings and magical abilities. Typically appearing in our childhoods as either the tooth fairy, a being our parents told us about whenever our teeth would fall out, telling us to put it under our pillow so she would come and take it, replacing it with a pound coin or five pound note, if you were lucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or maybe you were first introduced to these beings through Disney in the form of Tinkerbell<\/a>, a fictional character, who serves as Peter Pan’s sidekick. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, they were seen as a warning told to you by your parents when you became too much of a handful — \u201cWatch out, or the faeries will get you!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether you were introduced through fictional interpretation or as a nostalgic moment, once we grew older, we came to realize that these mythical creatures didn’t actually exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what if some people never stopped believing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if they\u2019re not the cute little winged faeries we were told about, but actually something much more sinister or maybe even more intriguing than we had ever imagined or anticipated?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the sugar-coated imagery is a fabrication, what, then, are these beings we’ve been taught to dismiss as mere fantasy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis isn’t as straightforward as it might seem to answer,\u201d says Mark Norman, a public folklorist, author and creator of The Folklore Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n