If anybody hasn't looked at the Dead But Dreaming site, I really want to recommend it. It's full of fascinating info and I have just been reading about my favourite artist in music, Pink Floyd's founder Syd Barrett. I knew a fair bit about him but wasn't aware of his interest in English Fairy stories. A really interesting site.
(2018-05-17, 07:37 AM)Chris Wrote: [ -> ]Neil Rushton has a new blog post about the faerie changeling phenomenon at deadbutdreaming (with a great 15th-century illustration of how the changeover was actually done):
https://deadbutdreaming.wordpress.com/20...henomenon/
Interesting that somebody mentioned Kasper Hauser in the comments.
Neil Rushton has an in-depth review of Joshua Cutchin's book "Thieves in the Night: a Brief History of Supernatural Child Abductions":
https://deadbutdreaming.wordpress.com/20...a-cutchin/
He finds it the most extensive assessment to date of the parallels between folkloric stories of abductions by faeries and the modern phenomenon of alien abduction, and reckons that Cutchin "makes a very convincing case for the faeries being one and the same as 20th/21st-century aliens, at least when it comes to abduction cases."
(2018-09-16, 09:42 PM)Chris Wrote: [ -> ]Neil Rushton has an in-depth review of Joshua Cutchin's book "Thieves in the Night: a Brief History of Supernatural Child Abductions":
https://deadbutdreaming.wordpress.com/20...a-cutchin/
He finds it the most extensive assessment to date of the parallels between folkloric stories of abductions by faeries and the modern phenomenon of alien abduction, and reckons that Cutchin "makes a very convincing case for the faeries being one and the same as 20th/21st-century aliens, at least when it comes to abduction cases."
Thanks Chris. It is definitely a book worth having for anyone who is interested in either faeries or aliens... or both. The author certainly makes some dynamic connections between the folklore and contemporary testimonies about supernatural child abduction. n.
And another new one, this time entitled "Charles Bonnet Syndrome and the Faeries" - an interview in which Neil describes the medical condition which produces what are conventionally viewed as visual hallucinations, and his own visions of faerie-like entities:
https://deadbutdreaming.wordpress.com/20...e-faeries/
(2019-02-04, 08:07 PM)Chris Wrote: [ -> ]And another new one, this time entitled "Charles Bonnet Syndrome and the Faeries" - an interview in which Neil describes the medical condition which produces what are conventionally viewed as visual hallucinations, and his own visions of faerie-like entities:
https://deadbutdreaming.wordpress.com/20...e-faeries/
Oliver Sacks, the writer of "The man who mistook his wife for a hat" did an interesting Ted talk on Charles Bonnet Syndrome.