Like all members of the category of ‘fey’, or the beings of the preternatural world, including fairies, elves, and pixies, goblins are renowned for being tricksy. In other words, best avoided.
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A folklorist explains how Halloween continues an ancient Celtic tradition of the celebration of the dead.
From mythical Moth people, who kidnapped children, to threatening desert fairies in loincloths, early Australian fairy tales helped sanitise white settlement, expressing colonial fears.
The ‘Disneyfication’ of fairies has helped us forget their darker origins.
Mermaids are not real, but are meaningful to people around the world.
They were the security systems of the post-medieval world.
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Hertfordshire
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Associate Professor of Research, University of Hertfordshire
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Professor of Anthropology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of English, Arizona State University
