



I always remember to thank them.

Victorian were popularized in part by 's keen interest in fairy art and by British illustrator and poet 's series of eight books published in 1923 through 1948.


Folklorists and mythologists have variously depicted fairies as: the unworthy dead, the children of , a kind of , a species independent of humans, an older race of humans, and fallen.

The trouble with stories from before the 20th century is that most of them are based on information handed down which is almost certainly inaccurate.





Description: Image credit: In centuries past, people were much less sophisticated about what was real and what wasn't; much of the world was still unexplored and shrouded in mystery.