Posted on 12/28/2017 10:25:16 PM PST by vannrox
And here I’ve been sleeping with two cats for years and not one single solitary dream about birds or mice. Not even cat food. If cats have telepathy transmission capabilities I am a lousy receiver.
This is sure weird though that decades before a rage of people being this way, these fairy visions were seen.
Shudder... And it shows up in Disney lore. Maybe God kept me from harm there. I failed to rate well on a tech interview. But they didn’t really give me the chance to show my stuff. Ageism I thought. But maybe anti-Godism more like it.
You probably need a signal booster.
Try sleeping with a wire coat hanger under your pillow.
Oh lol.
Just visit Fire Island, Key West or San Freaksicko...they’re crawling with fairies!
Quick Henry, the flit!
Heads up.
Meanwhile, in San Fancisco, Fairies gather in the dark of the moon to urinate in the streets.
"Heads up" ... "Fairy Investigation" ... I go get some sleep, gone a few hours and...
Thanks vannrox. Historically, fairy abductions were around for a long time in folklore and music ("True Thomas" is in Middle English, probably has roots even older) before they hit the modern context, that of alien (ET) abduction. Even the missing time aspect was there. In its best known form in US society we see it in the story of Rip Van Winkle.
I once read about a US exchange student who went to Ireland. One day in conversation with her host mom she heard the woman refer to the wee folk. Surely you don't still believe in the wee folk? Oh no, the woman said, I don't believe in them -- but they are there anyway.
I had believed the term “fairies” had to do with weakness or insubstantiality but now a historical allusion presents itself. Could not these charming but cursed visions be more closely tied to the spiritual influences behind the phenomenon than we might think?
A plague on this vagary!
I’m in a nice quandary
Of hasty tone
with dames unknown
I ought to be more chary!
It seems that she’s a fairy
From Anderson’s Library!
(And i took her for
The Proprietor
Of a Ladies’ Seminary!)
(((From “Iolanthe” by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan)))
:’)
Whoops — Thomas the Rhymer / True Thomas was based on a 13th century Scottish guy, or an even older tale got attached to him. My first encounter with a version of the poem was in E.R.Eddison.
http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/origins530-thomas-the-rhymer-and-the-queen-of-elfland.html
I don’t doubt that W.S. Gilbert drew heavily upon past English Literature!
Modern-Day Gilbert & Sullivan fans almost need extended footnotes to get a lot of his humor. It would seem that Victorian audiences had a lot better background in the Classics, and what was uproariously funny 130 years ago leaves many modern audiences scratching their heads.
But, then, again, who would have ever guessed that Broadway hits could be made by retelling the story of Alexander Hamilton in hip-hop jargon, or by mocking the Book of Mormon? LOL!
((((JFTR, I memorized 7 G&S operas by the time I was in sixth grade, and the verses still pop up in my head from time to time...like on this Fairy Thread! LOL! Happy New Year, FRiend!))))
It is the Faeries that make Crop Circles.
I was wondering who was going to be first with Mr. Crocker!! LOL
I saw this and thought it was about San Francisco.
Well fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me
I saw it I saw it with my one two eyes
Ozzie must have done a lot of weed when he wrote that.
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