CS Lewis takes the Renaissance to task for ruining fairies, both in his OHEL volume and in The Discarded Image, which has a nice section on faeries, called "Longaevi." Maybe the Reformation also did a job on them. Instead of witches, Simon Forman saw "three women fairies or nymphs" at the "Glob" in a performance of Macbeth. Dick Hardin
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King James VI/I, in his "Daemonologie" discusses incubi/succubi
(horrifying sexual creatures with cold sperm stolen from dead bodies) and
fairies (not real, illusions created by papists, and activated by the
devil, I think).
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