Le Fanu, Sheridan (February 5, 1870) " The White Cat of Drumgunniol", All the Year Round. Republished in Le Fanu, Sheridan (1923), Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery, James, Montague Rhodes (ed.) London: George Bell & Sons.

These illusions are also implicit in the tales of fairy ointment. Many tales from Northern Europe [82] [83] tell of a mortal woman summoned to attend a fairy birth — sometimes attending a mortal, kidnapped woman's childbed. Invariably, the woman is given something for the child's eyes, usually an ointment; through mischance, or sometimes curiosity, she uses it on one or both of her own eyes. At that point, she sees where she is; one midwife realizes that she was not attending a great lady in a fine house but her own runaway maid-servant in a wretched cave. She escapes without making her ability known but sooner or later betrays that she can see the fairies. She is invariably blinded in that eye or in both if she used the ointment on both. [84]The pacing was slow. It took more than three quarters of the book to get to some action. The author kept returning to things that didn't seem to matter as much. Also, why did he bother writing that whole storyline with Gabbie that didn't go anywhere? Why did he spend so much time developing the story and then insert some undeveloped characters in the end to "fix" everything?

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Faerie-tales

Warton, Thomas (2001). Spenser's Faerie Queene: Observations on the Fairy queen of Spenser. pt. 1. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-415-21958-7. David Bentley Hart (2020). "Selkies and Nixies: The Penguin Book of Mermaids." The Lamp: A Catholic Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Etc. Issue 2. Assumption 2020. pp. 49-50. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Yeats, William Butler (1888). Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. London: Walter Scott. Retrieved 20 November 2017. fairyland". Oxford English Dictionary (Onlineed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) This might be explained by seeing folktales of this type as representing a surviving pagan belief system of the afterlife. This afterlife did not follow the strictures of Christianity or other world religions, and provided an alternative view of what happens to consciousness after death. It is a view that was (in the West) superseded by Christian theology, but that may be surfacing in these folktales as remnants of the previous system of belief (a belief system that remained partially intact but operated underground for fear of religious persecution).

Nephamael– Initially a knight of the Unseelie court, he is traded for Roiben as part of the Queen's truce. He hates his new "home" and delights in taking the throne of the Night Court for himself at the end of the novel. He is cruel, manipulating and ruthless, and takes great pleasure in toying with humans and lesser faeries, especially when he meets Corny, whom he makes his pet. He ultimately pays the price for his cruelty, slain by Corny in a fit of murderous insanity whilst under the influence of magic. The King of Ireland's Son: The House of Crom Duv: The Story of the Fairy Rowan Tree". www.sacred-texts.com.a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Broome, Dora (1963). Fairy tales from the Isle of Man. Norris Modern Press. In addition to their folkloric origins, fairies were a common feature of Renaissance literature and Romantic art, and were especially popular in the United Kingdom during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The Celtic Revival also saw fairies established as a canonical part of Celtic cultural heritage. Evans Wentz, W. Y. (1966, 1990) The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. Gerrards Cross, Colin Smythe Humanities Press ISBN 0-901072-51-6 Suskin, Steven (2008-09-07). "THE DVD SHELF: "Mad Men" Season One, and Duvall's "Faerie Tale Theatre" ". Playbill.com. Archived from the original on 2008-09-10 . Retrieved 2008-09-08. Eva Pocs, Fairies and Witches at the boundary of south-eastern and central Europe FFC no 243 (Helsinki, 1989)