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A look at Irish folklore surrounding women’s craft in time for Halloween, a time of the year when boundaries between worlds are said to be thin.
Like all members of the category of ‘fey’, or the beings of the preternatural world, including fairies, elves, and pixies, goblins are renowned for being tricksy. In other words, best avoided.
A folklorist explains how Halloween continues an ancient Celtic tradition of the celebration of the dead.
From mythical Moth people, who kidnapped children, to threatening desert fairies in loincloths, early Australian fairy tales helped sanitise white settlement, expressing colonial fears.
The ‘Disneyfication’ of fairies has helped us forget their darker origins.
Mermaids are not real, but are meaningful to people around the world.
They were the security systems of the post-medieval world.
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