Nor do they give a second thought to the many wonder tales of people of short stature with magical powers that are common in children’s literature. Not unexpectedly, few modern people give any consideration at all to the ancient Celtic heritage of the cherubic little fellow with gold buckles on his shoes who is emblematic of St. Generally speaking, the popular image of ‘The Little People’ in the contemporary mind is a positive one seldom in this day and age does a leprechaun get ‘bad press,’ mischievousness and idleness being the worst that can be attributed to the various fairy races. It was another one of those periodic moments when a convergence of literature, art, folklore, and lifestyle result in ‘fairy folk being much in the air.’ Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings in 1965 (first by way of the unauthorised Ace paperback edition, and then further propelled by the authorised Ballantine edition), the whole gamut of wee folk became fashionable. Through the astonishing cultural phenomenon that was J.R.R. Fairies, elves, dwarves, and trolls were simply not on the radar at all. Prior to the mid-1960s, at least in the United States, which is the region I’m familiar with, leprechauns usually only crossed people’s minds around St. Keynote to nearly all his work, the most important cluåe to the Secret that is the key to the great enigma of man’s existence…. Impressed with the mystical idea that the world is not what it seems to be,īut that there lies behind everyday events and common objects some inner
A theme that was to become almost obsessive with Machen,įor he returned to it several times….
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