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You said the secret word!
“Romney Marsh”
(so this is your fault)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oh28HwUa5A

And if the fairies left England….how do you explain the Sissinghurst thingie?

Oh! Have you seen the full version of that, Yankee? Disney didn’t re-release it for years and year and — I swear to you — the day before I moved to the UK, my copy of the commemorative DVD came in the mail. It’s awesome.

Fairies are bastards. They were always pulling that crap. The Tinkerbellization is a total lie.

Oh, yeah. Fairies in the wild are nasty, vindictive bastards.

The story, by the way, refers to them as “Pharisees.” I suspect the country people did that.

“Nasty”
That’s why Hoggle was spraying them with pesticide in Labyrinth.

Is the full version different than what we watched on the “Wonderful world of black and white” back in the olden days?

Once I got a msg taken by a student worker in our office that said: “Ur fiend flit is untied.” LOL

This websight is the original work of art.

Fairies are like lampreys, have no use for an ethno-state. Do not fall for their teary fairy-tales of fleeing, hiding, disenfranchisement and oppression.

I was so thrilled when I unexpectedly came across the Titian to which Manet’s Olympia pays homage. No one else understood why. Sigh.

Lordy Ms. Stoat, you caused 50 year old synapses to fire when I saw that illustration and I realized Rackham illustrated one of my favorite childhood books Aesop’s Fables! Thanks for helping me recover that memory.

So where did all the fairies go?

[N.B. answers mentioning “San Francisco”, “Fire Island”, “Provincetown”, etc. are homophobic, bigoted, and triggering, so keep your condescending microaggressive attempts at humor to yourself.]

I imagine for most people, offshore was gone. Like, gone gone. I don’t suppose they thought it through any more.

These are people who used to get into pitched battles with “those bastards in the next village over.” Xenophobic doesn’t adequately describe it.

That would be a fair question legend wise. Unlikely the French in Calais noted a sudden influx of fairies that corresponded with the flight of the English pack around the time of the departure. Though it would be quite entertaining/interesting if they DID.

If “Larkrise to Candleford” was remotely accurate so is Stoaty’s observation about the attitude towards people in the village; over the hill, beyond the hedge or across the valley, from the one you live in.

“Friendly” competitions like hurling (Wikipedia says it was called bando in England) in the olden days with matches between various localities in Ireland are described sometimes to be more like a war between villages where a game broke out (Hockey!).

“Flit,” I think, used to be a slang term for “homosexual.” (It was also a popular brand of insecticide (“Quick, Henry, the Flit!”). I wonder if one inspired the other.

As for magic-oriented fairies, when I developed my fantasy fiction series some years ago, I never considered making them part of it. We’ve had too many stories about fairies, I guess. (And don’t get me started on dragons –)

One of these days I need to sit down and watch the “Scarecrow” episodes on YouTube. Patrick McGoohan is remembered for Secret Agent and his Columbo appearances, but this should be on everyone’s pop-culture radar. What a grand opening sequence! Anybody who loved Zorro would like this one. His mask makes a good deal more sense than Zorro’s, or Batman’s: it actually conceals all of his face!