As a child, I couldn't go into a forest without imagining that I was about to discover someone or something that had eluded me for a long time.' 'Folk art,' according to Yates, is 'the soil where all great art is based' because it contains the 'simplest and most indelible ideas of generations' that have been 'passed down among the cottages. In a previous work, The Celtic Twilight, he wrote: 'I feel when I am in the mood that all nature is filled with individuals whom we cannot see. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a mystic poet, Yeats, toured around Ireland, asking people whether they had ever seen fairies and recording their experiences. In fact, if you're interested in English fairy legend, the writings of Katharine Briggs are a veritable gold mine. Briggs is a scholarly study of English fairy legend. The Fairies in English Tradition and Literature by K.M. The Fairies in Tradition and Literature By Katharine M. It serves as an example of how individuals will believe whatever they want to, no matter how absurd it may appear to others. Because of our country's present divisiveness, this book is particularly pertinent. My favorite thing about it is that it shows how events reported from the perspective of a strong guy may be quite different from the same events portrayed from the perspective of less powerful participants in the same drama. It was in this book that Doyle made the claim that photography had finally proved the existence of fairies, hence this is Doyle's version of Elsie and Francis's narrative. The Coming of the Fairies By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Fairy Ring by Mary Losure