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Helpful Fairies

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Modern Fairies
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Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield discuss how fairies and humans can co-operate and assist each other.
Although fairies can be highly dangerous there are domains of life where they need human help. Giving birth is one; human midwives are needed to help fairy babies into the world. Working with iron is inimical to many fairies too, and they will give fine rewards when humans fulfil the bargains they’ve made. And we also discover how fairies, particularly the trows of Orkney, love a good tune ….

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Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield talk about the strange interest that fairies take in human infants, and the plight of children who stumble into this world, and can’t get home.
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Modern Fairies
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Carolyne Larrington
Fay Hield
Brian McMahon
Lucy Farrell
Ewan McPherson
Keywords
fairies
folk-tales
fiddlers
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 12/02/2019
Duration: 00:20:44

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