Episode 197: Taken (ad-free) (Patreon)

One of the most common players on the stage of folklore is a creature that’s been obsessed over for centuries. And it’s fair to say that, however frightening the stories might be, Europe has been pretty taken by them.

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Further Reading:

1. “Fairy Scapegoats: A History of the Persecution of Changeling Children,” Long Reads, https://longreads.com/2018/06/08/fairy-scapegoats-a-history-of-the-persecution-of-changeling-children.
2. “Anne Jeffries,” Engole, March 3 2019,  https://engole.info/anne-jefferies.
3. “Anne Jeffries and the Fairies,” Museum of Witchcraft & Magic, https://museumofwitchcraftandmagic.co.uk/library/1411-anne-jefferies-and-the-fairies.
4. “Anne Jeffries and the Fairies,” Mazed,  https://www.mazedtales.org/content/stories/anne-jeffries-and-fairies.
5. “History of St Teath woman, who claimed to have had encounters with fairies, comes to light,” The Holsworthy Post. May 10 2019,  https://www.holsworthy-today.co.uk/article.cfm?id=112800&headline=History%20of%20St%20Teath%20woman,%20who%20claimed%20to%20have%20had%20encounters%20with%20fairies,%20comes%20to%20light&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2019.
6. “Reverend Robert Kirk and the Fairies,” Historic Mysteries, https://www.historicmysteries.com/robert-kirk.
7. “The tale of a foiled fairy abduction,” IrishCentral, April 15 2019, https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/tale-foiled-fairy-abduction.
8. “Strange and wonderful news from the county of Wicklow in Ireland, or, A full and true relation of what happened to one Dr. Moore (late schoolmaster in London), how he was taken invisibly from his friends, what happened to him in his absence, and how, any by what means he was found, and brought back to the same place,” Early English Books, https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A71083.0001.001/1:2?rgn=div1;view=fulltext.
9. “The Origins of Fairies,” Historic UK, https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/The-Origins-of-Fairies.
10. C. C. Oman, “The English Folklore of Gervase of Tilbury.” Folklore, vol. 55, no. 1, 1944, pp. 2–15.
11. “Curious Case of Superstition,” The Freeman’s Journal, September 8 1843, p. 4.