Fairy Lovers
Sep 09, 2020
Fairies in the British folklore tradition are spirits of nature: they are as ancient as wind and rain, manifestations of the living spirit in all organic matter. They are spirits of place, inhabiting certain trees, hillocks, rock formations, rivers, lakes; and they are embodiments of the numinous quality of nature that we feel but can never adequately describe -- except through the metaphor of myth, which tells the truth but tells it slantwise…
These words, from Terri Windling, capture the magic and mystery of fairies, and their connection to ourselves and the world. Their slantwise nature, however, means we need to have our wits about us in order to make sense of what they give us. This really hits the nerve of the Wrackline concept - the relationships between the physical and spiritual, the understood and the unknown. ..
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