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skonen_blades) wrote2012-01-07 12:33 am
skonen_blades) wrote2012-01-07 12:33 am
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6/365 - Fairies
I have a theory about fairies.
I believe that they were unwanted children. Children born out of wedlock. Down syndrome children. Deformed children. Children tossed into the woods and left to die. While many of them did die, a few survived and took care of others. They had no language and they hid from the humans that left them. They wore nothing and exposure got them more often than nothing. Barely any made it to puberty and when they did, the babies were kept.
They were playful and sadistic, just like children. They loved a joke and were insane, just like children. They had no morals and were easily impressed by stories and music, just like children.
They were small and light and so could sneak on roofs or jump from branch to branch soundlessly.
Feral children that couldn’t speak dressed in rags. Savages that never became adults. Lost boys and lost girls only glimpsed by embarrassed and ashamed adults who made them into another mythical race in their stories, made them into scapegoats for stolen items and sudden curses. Murders could be blamed on the fairies. Children that didn’t look like the husband could be blamed on the fairies. Lost hats and lost weeks could be blamed on the fairies.
I have no doubt that they played music and had the power to change reality. When one is in the middle of a forest far from home, the rules start to bend. Athletic, smooth-bodied, naked children in the trees would seem unearthly but someone natural. It would seem, once one returned to civilization, as if a spell had been cast.
Many northern Europeans are allergic to nickel. Some are allergic to copper. Fairies were thought to be allergic to iron. The allergy to iron was killed out of the human race because of a belief in fairies.
Fairies played games with us, sometimes with fatal consequences, as an act of constant revenge rooted in entertainment.
Fairies were our own cruelty haunting us.
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I believe that they were unwanted children. Children born out of wedlock. Down syndrome children. Deformed children. Children tossed into the woods and left to die. While many of them did die, a few survived and took care of others. They had no language and they hid from the humans that left them. They wore nothing and exposure got them more often than nothing. Barely any made it to puberty and when they did, the babies were kept.
They were playful and sadistic, just like children. They loved a joke and were insane, just like children. They had no morals and were easily impressed by stories and music, just like children.
They were small and light and so could sneak on roofs or jump from branch to branch soundlessly.
Feral children that couldn’t speak dressed in rags. Savages that never became adults. Lost boys and lost girls only glimpsed by embarrassed and ashamed adults who made them into another mythical race in their stories, made them into scapegoats for stolen items and sudden curses. Murders could be blamed on the fairies. Children that didn’t look like the husband could be blamed on the fairies. Lost hats and lost weeks could be blamed on the fairies.
I have no doubt that they played music and had the power to change reality. When one is in the middle of a forest far from home, the rules start to bend. Athletic, smooth-bodied, naked children in the trees would seem unearthly but someone natural. It would seem, once one returned to civilization, as if a spell had been cast.
Many northern Europeans are allergic to nickel. Some are allergic to copper. Fairies were thought to be allergic to iron. The allergy to iron was killed out of the human race because of a belief in fairies.
Fairies played games with us, sometimes with fatal consequences, as an act of constant revenge rooted in entertainment.
Fairies were our own cruelty haunting us.
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