Fairy Census?
How cool is this? The Fairy Census: End Game August 1, 2023 Author: Beach Combing | in : Actualite , trackback In 2014 (inspired by Marjorie Johnson’s Seeing Fairies , which I had just edited) I started the Fairy Census . The aim was to gather together first-hand encounters with fairies; or unusual supernatural experiences that could be understood in fairy terms. It took me to 2017 to get to 500 encounters, which were then published freely online . I’m now, in 2023, getting ready to publish the second volume Fairy Census 2 (2018-2023) with another five hundred encounters and Chris and I dedicate this month’s podcast on Boggart and Banshee to the survey. http://www.strangehistory.net/podcast/ What is the end game? When I started my intention was to get to 1000 encounters in a year (how I laughed when I reread this). My ambition was to study not fairies (a hopeless but beautiful endeavour!), but rather the people who saw...