[SunkenCiv]

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.

[left that other site]

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)))

[UCANSEE2]

It is the Faeries that make Crop Circles.