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FairyTale
Cottage
Registered User
(10/29/04 9:00 am)
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Little People
Have you seen the news of the skeletons of a homonid race of 'little people' found in Indonesia? Only 12,000 years old.
I think this is the most exciting anthropological find I've heard of, as it proves that another homonid race of little people DID live on the earth during the prehistoric human era.
OK, so these ones were in Indonesia. But maybe there was some factual basis for the tales about dwarfs, gnomes, elves, brownies, leprechauns, etc etc?
Would this affect our understanding of fairy tales?
I wonder if they'll discover a scientific basis for magic next? Or a portal to fairy realms in another dimension?
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GailS
Unregistered User
(10/29/04 10:28 pm)
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One Story
Here's a link to one account.
GailS
www.nature.com/news/speci...index.html
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Veronica Schanoes
Registered User
(10/30/04 3:16 am)
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Re: One Story
It's interesting, but my understanding has always been that the shrinking of the elves/fairies came rather late in the game; that in many or most of the original tales, fairies were our size, if not taller, and generally ill-disposed toward people. Then they got nicer, and smaller, and generally twee. Am I mistaken about this?
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FairyTale
Cottage
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(10/30/04 5:33 am)
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little people
My understanding was that some races were always portrayed as small (eg dwarfs, leprechauns), while other races were once portrayed as human hight or taller, but have since been miniaturized.
Most adults in western society would regard fairy races, of any size, as pure fantasy or superstition.
But maybe there really were 'little people', who interacted with human beings.
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