Folklore* | The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Oxford Academic
"a unique catalog of oral traditions spanning approximately 1,000 societies"
Elves in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction • Protean Magazine
'“Fairy-taken” is also a less individualistic explanation than “languishing.” This sadness and inability to work is happening to you, but not because of you. It’s not that you failed to hustle hard enough, or to take appropriate care of yourself—it’s just that there’s something very evil and arbitrary in the world, and it chose to snatch you up. And there’s no solution and no cure, unless you can trick the fairies into letting you go.'