"I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful—a faery’s child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild."
“Words do have power.
Names have power.
Words are events, they do things, change things.”
“The notion that the fairies were always slightly out of reach,
slipping beyond human ken as they vanished into the mists of time,
is exceedingly tenacious and of long duration.
Almost every generation has apparently been convinced that fairy
belief was stronger among its predecessors.
This was equally true during periods when fairies were taken very seriously indeed.
However, even at the height of their baleful influence it is possible to find this theme
of what one scholar has neatly distinguished as ‘the perpetual recession of the fairies’.”