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chimera
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|  New Message Posted!2008-02-03 04:03
Amusing quotes:
Muddymick fairies and AndyN?
"One Response to “Muddy fairies at the SAI festival”
liam responded on 03 Jan 2008 at 3:36 pm #
Hi Andy
happy new year to you and your friend
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chimera
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| New Message Posted!2008-02-02 06:15
Richard Corbet (1582–1635)
Lament, lament, old Abbeys,
The Fairies’ lost command! 10
They did but change Priests’ babies,
But some have changed your land.
And all your children, sprung from thence,
Are now grown Puritans,
Who live as Changelings ever since 15
For love of your demains.
By which we note the Fairies
Were of the old Profession.
Their songs were ‘Ave Mary’s’, 35
Their dances were Procession.
But now, alas, they all are dead;
Or gone beyond the seas;
Or farther for Religion fled;
Or else they take their ease. 40
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chimera
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| New Message Posted!2008-02-01 04:10
I wonder has anyone calculated deaths from Roman battles, compared to Protestant: Catholic wars and Crusades ? Normans may have had fairies in the turrets, but Oliver Cromwell would have them shot.
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brigantia
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| New Message Posted!2008-01-31 22:00
Hi Sem -
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On 2008-01-31 21:18, sem wrote:
Recently leafing through Albion - A Guide to Legendary Britain by Jennifer Westwood, I came across a most amusing statement. Has anyone got one to equal it?
It reads (talking about Craig-y-Dinas near Neath), "When Wirt Sykes was writing British Goblins (1880), there were men alive who remembered the fairies coming there, though they were no longer seen, having been driven out by the Methodists."
It appears that Welsh fairies having survived the onslaught of Celts, Romans, Normans etc finally succumbed the Welsh Methodist movement. |
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See if you can gerrold of a book called The Standing Stones Speak (can't remember the authors). I did a brief review of it when it came out and asked why the last word was missing from the title - that word being 'bollox'! Get a copy - it's awesome! There's more drivel in that book than anything you'll ever read anywhere. Unless, of course, you know different...!
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sem
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| New Message Posted!2008-01-31 21:18
Recently leafing through Albion - A Guide to Legendary Britain by Jennifer Westwood, I came across a most amusing statement. Has anyone got one to equal it?
It reads (talking about Craig-y-Dinas near Neath), "When Wirt Sykes was writing British Goblins (1880), there were men alive who remembered the fairies coming there, though they were no longer seen, having been driven out by the Methodists."
It appears that Welsh fairies having survived the onslaught of Celts, Romans, Normans etc finally succumbed the Welsh Methodist movement.
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