Fairies Weren't What You Think | The Dark Truth Behind British & Irish Folklore

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  @MysteriesOfMythology · 7 months ago (edited) · pinned

  Which fairy would you like to meet the most?<br>Quite a few have pointed out that the &apos;unknown&apos; artist around the 7 min mark is Rebecca Guay - thank you!<br>And yes... Tinkerbell indirectly tried to kill Wendy - I am old and watched it a very long time ago - apologies.

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  @nataliebutler · 7 months ago

  A channel that isn&apos;t AI !! 🙌

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  @rodrigosanchezviamonte2694 · 7 months ago

  About tooth fairys. I&apos;m from Argentina. Here we tell the children that a mouse is who takes fallen teeth leaving money in exchange. It&apos;s called Ratón Pérez. Less glamorous than a fairy, but still magical

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  @Gianfranco_69 · 7 months ago

  This is Gorgeous...... and zero AI entities were bothered in the production of this &apos;material&apos;.<br>No AI B-Roll slop,no AI Voiceover or Script ,..... <br>SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL HUMAN

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  @k-pax532 · 2 months ago

  I bought a cottage in the west of Ireland on the side of a mountain, surrounded by woods, a fair bit off the beaten track and with no proper road leading to it. When viewing it the first time, the real estate agent was in a hurry to leave after just showing it to me. He asked if I feared the fairies; I said no, that I have never had any trouble with them. He said that they give him the heebie-jeebies, and he didn&apos;t like coming to show people the cottage because of his fear. It was all a bit strange to me at the time, and then he asked if I would be a cash buyer, to which I replied yes, and he immediately dropped the price of the cottage by quite a bit, which brought it into my budget. I&apos;ve had it nearly 10 years now, and it is a magical place for sure, and I&apos;m happy to say that I&apos;ve had no trouble at all with the wee folk,

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  @radicalpaddyo · 6 months ago

  My theory about all the stories with people disappearing for a couple of days on the way home and reappearing with stories about being taken &quot;by the wild fae&quot;, is they are deeply rooted in an even older tradition of the isles: alcoholism!

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  @aratrex · 7 months ago

  I want to thank you for keeping the background music nice and quiet. I could hear everything you had to say it was great.

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  @fjallaxd7355 · 7 months ago

  I&apos;m from Guernsey, in the Channel Islands. In the mid to late 1800s our Governor at the time, Sir Edgar MacCulloch 1808 - 1896, started to compile local folklore about the Channel islands, specifically about Guernsey. Because as he saw it, our island&apos;s culture and folklore was disappearing and becoming more like the mainland UK. Almost whitewashed. He was 100% correct. Our Island&apos;s culture has deteriorated massively in the past 250 years.<br><br>Anyway, he spoke extensively in his later published book, known simply as &quot;Guernsey folklore&quot; about fairies, their homes, how they act, how to treat them, where to find them and general tradition around them. The fairies of Channel Islands are a Celto-Germanic mix of traditions. Very, very similar to the fairies you spoke of here. Anyway, I thought this may be interesting. Great video.

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  @kevindorn2508 · 7 months ago (edited)

  In germany we had legends of gnomes that live in your house and you can lure them out with things they like and exchange goods for service. I have enough tobacco and alcohol to pay gnomes for doing my chores...but they never show up

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  @arcanian717 · 4 months ago

  European Folklore is far more intriguing and engaging than any HBO or Netflix show.

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  @Datadog-1 · 7 months ago

  Fairy is a shortening of “the fair folk”<br>Superstitious people were terrified of these creatures, and you never knew when they could be listening to what you were saying. <br>So, in an attempt to avoid their wrath, they decided to always refer to them by a name that would hopefully please them, or at least not insult them enough to have them put a spell on you.

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  @Sgt.MarkRoe · 7 months ago

  Tooth Fairy: when my son was very little and still believed in Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy, etc. one night, after he&apos;d lost a tooth and carefully put it under his pillow, asked me &quot; but how will she get in our flat?&quot; I said I&apos;d leave the bathroom window open a bit. After he went to sleep, I took a pair of little combat boots from his 12&quot; G. I. Joe, rubbed the bottoms with a charcoal stick, and made little boot prints from the window, across the toilet lid and over the bathroom floor ( as everyone knows, Fairies Wear Boots). Come morning, he gets up, goes to the bathroom to pee, and screams: &quot; Dad! Dad! The Tooth Fairy was HERE!! &quot; The little things we do for our kids..

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