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“Don’t Mess with the Fairies”

Listen to Martha Bayless discuss fairies in an episode of the podcast Imaginary Worlds. Imaginary Worlds is a bi-weekly podcast about sci-fi and other fantasy genres hosted by Eric Molinsky.

Forget Tinkerbell or those Victorian illustrations of spritely pixies with wings. Authentic fairy folklore is much darker and weirder. Irish storytellers Philip Byrne, Helena Byrne, Eddie Lenihan, and professor Martha Bayless discuss how fairy folklore dominated Celtic culture for centuries, and why belief in fairies is not an unreasonable way of understanding the world.

Listen at: https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/