It is interesting and adds to the mysticism of a place. I do like how folklore grows. We were discussing this yesterday in our Victorian lecture how there was a positive correlation between periods of an unsettling amount of change (war/economic and social change) and recurring surge of interest in fairies and folklore. Not only did we have this in the Victorian era, via the upheaval of the Industrial Revolution, we can see this in later in the late nineteen thirties with Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy (much of which was written during World War II).
Maybe there is a link between people feeling that they are ‘diminished’ in some way, considering themselves as ‘downsized people’ – a response to threatening forces beyond their control.
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Date: 2014-12-03 02:56 pm (UTC)From:Maybe there is a link between people feeling that they are ‘diminished’ in some way, considering themselves as ‘downsized people’ – a response to threatening forces beyond their control.