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Arthur Conan Doyle (1852-1930), campione del positivismo,creatore dell’indimenticabile Sherlock Holmes, investigatore la cui fama è dovuta anche al metodo d’indagine dominato dalla razionalità e dal ragionamento analitico, da un certo punto della sua vita divenne un sostenitore dell’esistenza delle fate… Che cosa c’entra Conan Doyle con le fate di Cottingley? C’entra molto.  Fu proprio Conan Doyle a diffondere negli ambienti teosofici ed esoterici di tutto il mondo la notizia delle apparizioni delle fate a Cottingley, prima con due articoli sullo Strand Magazine, del dicembre 1920 e marzo 1921 e quindi con un libro, The Coming of the Fairies ("La venuta delle fate"), pubblicato a Londra nel 1922 e quindi in una seconda edizione ampiamente rivista nel 1928. Il volume non era mai stato tradotto in italiano, fino a ...

Un piccolo rito che vi aiutera ad interaggire col mondo fatato, su internet se ne trovano tanti ma questo mi sembrava il più sensato ma questo non vuol dire che non bisogna prendere il tutto alla leggera esse sono esseri liberi bisogna essere cauti e gentili in presenza di una creatura del regno fatato. Se nel corso del rito senti di non riuscire a gestire tutto il potere è meglio chiudere tutto. Nel caso in cui accidentalmente si contatti un entità non propriamente benevola o dispettosa conviene concludere immediatamente la visita e questo può essere fatto sia usando le buone maniere ma se è necessario anche senza essere troppo cortesi. Seguite alla lettere questi 12 passaggi per assicurarvi la riuscita dell'invocazione: 1) Concentrati sull'oscurità che si crea automaticamente chiudendo gli occhi.   2) Vedrai nell’oscurità, pian piano apparire come una sfera verde (questa è la luce del regno fatato) 3) Lasciati avvolgere da questa sfera magica, ...

The question as to the essential nature of fairies has been the topic of myths, stories, and scholarly papers for a very long time. Practical beliefs and protection    When considered as beings that a person might actually encounter, fairies were noted for their mischief and malice. Some pranks ascribed to them, such as tangling the hair of sleepers into "Elf-locks", stealing small items or leading a traveler astray, are generally harmless. But far more dangerous behaviors were also attributed to fairies. Any form of sudden death might stem from a fairy kidnapping, with the apparent corpse being a wooden stand-in with the appearance of the kidnapped person. Consumption (tuberculosis) was sometimes blamed on the fairies forcing young men and women to dance at revels every night, causing them to waste away from lack of rest. Fairies riding domestic animals, such as cows or pigs or ducks, could cause paralysis or mysterious illnesses.As a consequence, pra...

Fairies are generally described as human in appearance and having magical powers. Their origins are less clear in the folklore, being variously dead, or some form of demon, or a species completely independent of humans or angels. Folklorists have suggested that their actual origin lies in a conquered race living in hiding, or in religious beliefs that lost currency with the advent of Christianity. These explanations are not necessarily incompatible, and they may be traceable to multiple sources.Much of the folklore about fairies revolves around protection from their malice, by such means as cold iron (iron is like poison to fairies, and they will not go near it) or charms of rowan and herbs, or avoiding offense by shunning locations known to be theirs. In particular, folklore describes how to prevent the fairies from stealing babies and substituting changelings, and abducting older people as well. Many folktales are told of fairies, and they appear as characters in stories from ...

The Danish peasantry give the following account of their EllefoIk or Elve-people. The Elle-people live in the Elle-moors. The appearance of the man is that of an old man with a low-crowned hat on his head; the Elle-woman is young and of a fair and attractive countenance, but behind she is hollow like a dough-trough. Young men should be especially on their guard against her, for it is very difficult to resist her; and she has, moreover, a stringed instrument, which, when she plays on it, quite ravishes their hearts. The man may be often seen near the EIle-moors, bathing himself in the sunbeams, but if any one comes too near him, he opens his mouth wide and breathes upon them, and his breath produces sickness and pestilence. But the women are most frequently to be seen by moonshine; then they dance their rounds in the high grass so lightly and so gracefully, that they seldom meet a denial when they offer their hand to a rash young man. It is also necessary to watch ca...

In the several main archives in Sweden are holdings of over one hundred thousand Norwegian folktales in print or manuscript form. Expand outward to include the rest of Scandinavia and there will of course be many, many more. This recorded lore and tradition attests to how vast and rich a culture of storytelling has existed in this part of the world. Let's return now to Sweden and enter its forests. Let us also go back in time, though not really so far, a mere one or two hundred years will suffice. It's peaceful here with the trees, the air so clean and pure, the sky high above a blue or a gray — and the silence deep, profound, too deep now, you see we've been out for days, on a hunt or to burn charcoal, and the silence has become so intense that it seems we don't even hear the sounds of our own actions. We know we are safe from the trolls, for while there are probably a large band of them on the other side of the mountain, never has it been said that t...

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