Caroline Tully wrote:
>Dianne Purkiss in "At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins and Other Troublesome Things" (New York University Press. 2000) would say that fairies *were* the dead. Do you agree with that?
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Is she saying that fairies are just a human metaphor for the dead? Or is
she saying they are the dead in folklore?
Harry Roth
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