December 1, 2023 • 41 mins
Ever wondered if there's an unseen world teeming with mystical beings, just beyond our human perception? Strap in for a mind-bending exploration into the realm of the hidden folk, the ethereal beings of folklore and fairytales. We'll embark on a journey tracing their origins back to ancient pagan beliefs and Nordic mythology, and share spine-tingling tales of encounters from around the globe. Uncover how these enigmatic entities have woven themselves into our collective consciousness, influencing folklore, superstition, and even shaping our cultural and literary landscape.
Can you handle the truth about fairy rings? These fascinating, naturally occurring phenomena have fuelled superstitions and legends for centuries, with beliefs stretching from endless dancing till madness takes hold, to devil's handiwork. Discover the extraordinary allure fairy rings hold, as we shatter scientific explanations and head deeper into the rabbit hole of folklore and tradition. From the good luck bestowed upon those who dare to enter, according to Welsh tradition, to the inspiration they've sparked in literature, these peculiar formations have mystified humanity for long.
Now, brace yourself as we venture beyond the physical realm, into the speculative domains of parallel realities and dimensional shifts. Drawing from research at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, we peer into the quantum world, asking - could fairies actually exist in our world and beyond? Engage with the disparate views encompassing hallucinations, psychological manifestations, as well as the more tantalizing belief in entities manifesting from other realms. Finally, we plunge into the mystical world of hidden folk, contemplating their possible existence as spirits, aliens, or interdimensional beings. As we wrap up this enchanting expedition, we leave you, dear listener, with an invitation to keep your mind open to the magic that potentially exists in our world. Strap in, it's going to be a wild ride!
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Speaker 1 (00:26):
Welcome to Legends from the Shadows, tales of the
Unexplained.
I'm your host, eric Dion, andI'll be your guide through the
mysteries that lurk beyond theordinary.
Join me as we peel back theveil on legends, myths and
enigmas that have nestledthemselves in the shadowy
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corners of history.
From cryptic creatures to eerieoccurrences, we'll embark on a
journey to uncover the truth,mysteries and whispers that have
captivated curious minds forcenturies.
Get ready to venture into theunknown, where the line between
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fact and folklore blur and thestories that dwell in the
shadows come to light.
Greetings, dear listeners.
Today we embark on a mysticaljourney into the realm of the
hidden folk, creatures offolklore and myth that have
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enchanted cultures worldwide forcenturies.
Join me as we uncover theirhistory, sightings and enduring
presence in the modern worldthat we know it.
So the hidden folk are alsoknown as elves, fairies or other
ethereal beings.
They've inhabited thecollective imaginations of
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humankind for ages now.
These elusive creatures, oftenresiding in hidden realms or
within nature itself, are set topossess extraordinary powers
and live parallel to our ownworld.
But what lies behind thesetales?
That's one of the biggestquestions right now, and that's
what I want to delve deeper into, their history and their lore.
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The origins of the hidden folkare also known in Icelandic
folklore.
The hundan folk are deeplyintertwined with the rich
tapestry of North mythology andthe cultural beliefs that the
Nordic people had.
Now, these mythical beings arebelieved to have traced their
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lineage to ancient pagan beliefsthat predate the
Christianization of the region.
In North mythology there's arich tradition of supernatural
beings, including elves, dwarvesand other mythical entities,
which likely influence theconceptuation of what we know or
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refer to as the hidden folk.
The roots of the hundan folkmight also be connected to the
ideal of land spirits or naturespirits that were revered by
Nordic societies.
These beings were believed toinhabit specific natural
locations such as rocks, forests, caves, and they were also seen
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, though, as guardians orprotectors of these places.
Now, over time and, I guess,culture, these nature spirits
became intertwined with folkloresurrounding the hidden folk how
, I don't really know, but a lotof the contributing factors to
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it and contributing to theirassociation with certain
landscapes and their roles ascustodians, basically, of the
environment.
Now, legends passed downthrough generations that further
embellished the origins of thehidden folk.
They weave tales of theircreations and existence into
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parallel with humans.
There are some stories outthere that suggest they are
descendants of the Norse godsthemselves, while others depict
them as being born from theearth, itself tied to the
natural elements that wereimbued with magical abilities.
Now, both these narratives canvary across regions, reflecting
the diverse cultural beliefs andoral tradition of what we would
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know and consider as Nordicpeople.
The origins of the hidden folkare persistent as a blend of
ancient mythologies.
You know, you have your folkbeliefs and your cultural
heritage that have evolvedthrough the centuries of
storytelling and shaping thecollective imagination of the
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Nordic communities.
Now there's specifics of theirorigins that might differ from
one tale to the other, but theenduring fascination with these
mythical beings continues toenrich the fabric of the Nordic
region.
So, in the end, when we'retouching, based on history and
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lore, the folklore surroundingthe hidden folk has just
transcended cultures andcivilizations from way, way back
From the Scandinavian talesthat said that the hidden folk
dwelling in places to Celticbelief in these slide are
residing mounds.
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They have woven themselves intothe tapestry of other numerous
mythologies.
Legends describe the hiddenfolk as guardians of nature,
possessing both a mischief andbenevolence, which you know.
That's kind of go If you can'tsee something, you're going to
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be afraid.
You know, we're all usuallyafraid of the unknown.
That's what, that's what causesfear and that's what can cause
so many misconceptions.
You have stories of encounterswith these beings, ranging from
helpful interactions with humansto like cautionary tales of
those who dare to serve thedomains of the hidden folk.
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Throughout history, there'ssightings and interactions with
the hidden folk have beenreported, and each account keeps
adding more and more layers totheir mystique.
Okay, so let's explore somenotable, I guess, say, sightings
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and encounters that havecontributed to the lore of the
hidden folk.
I want to start off by touchingbase over in Iceland,
specifically near Reykjavik.
Back in, I want to say it's2014, they were supposed to be
building a highway that wouldlink the Alphins Peninsula to
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the Reykjavik suburb, nearGardevar, or Gardevar, if I'm
pronouncing it wrong.
I do apologize.
I'm awful at pronunciations andstuff, but this road was
actually halted from being donefor a bit because they had
campaigners protesters out therewarning that if they disturbed
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the elf habitat and theprotected area around it, that
there would be nothing buttrouble.
There was two particular spotsthat were in question at that
time One they actually hadlabeled as Elf Church and the
other one was labeled as ElfChapel.
Now let me be very, very clearand distinct here.
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When saying elf and fairies andstuff like that, I'm not
talking like you're what mostpeople say.
Oh, you know Santa's elves,these little guys that pointy
ears, you know green, purple,pink, whatever color out there.
Now, actually, when we'retalking about hidden folks and
the fey and elves and stuff,they're actually the same size
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as us.
Some can be tall, some short,some fat, some thin.
You know, it's not what weperceive, it never has been it.
Just they are hidden to us.
So, that being done, and said,they had these two spots that
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the locals and everybody did notwant to mess with because they
were said to be fairy locationsor elf locations.
In the end, the matter ended upbeing resolved in part.
There was a local lady there.
She claimed to talk to the feyand she was given a chance that
she went and did her thing.
She said she spoke with themand they ended up mediating and
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they came to an agreement thatthe road could be done as long
as the elf's chapel wascarefully moved in place
elsewhere, and that's what theydid.
Now we're talking about a 70ton rock and I don't know the
cost of moving stuff like thatvery carefully.
All I know is I'm trying tolook up into information that
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the highway authority still tothis day will not reveal the
cost that it cost them to movethat rock and they had to hire a
bunch of cranes and stuff inthe end.
So that's one of the ones thatI followed for a while, just
trying to get more and moreinformation on it here and there
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.
So yeah, iceland, it's such abeautiful country, from the hot
springs to just the countryside,but they're deep enriched
folklore surrounding the elves.
It's just something amazing.
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They even have a fairy schoolthere that you can enroll in,
and that, to me, is just one ofthose things that I'm just like.
You know, this is great stuff.
Let's move on now and let'stalk about Fairy Ring.
Now, there's a lot that goes onwith the Fairy Ring.
So if you break it down on ascience level, it says you know,
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basically, science says thatfairy rings are patterns of
certain types of mushrooms thatgrow in a circular formation,
are naturally occurringphenomena and they usually
appear year after year on lawnsor in fields or in the forest.
But Fairy Rings they occur whenmushroom spores fall in a
favorable spot and then theyspread out and basically there's
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an underground network of finetubular threads called hyphen.
Now the mushroom caps thenappear at the edge of these
networks that are formedunderground and formation
continues to expand upward andthey use all this nutrients
within them as they grow largerand larger.
And you know there's a ring inBelfort, france, that was
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considered, and still isconsidered, the largest ever
seen.
I think it measuresapproximately a little over
2,000 feet in diameter and it'sover 700 years old.
Like it's been coming back andback and back and back, which is
crazy.
Now the lore behind a lot ofthis is people regard fairy
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rings with a strong sense ofcuriosity and fear because they
believe them to have mysticaland be places of supernatural
powers.
Within folklore we can tellthat cultures across Europe have
traditionally believed thatfairy rings were the dwelling
places and portals into thefairy worlds elves, witches and
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all types of other magicalcreatures, and some of them.
You know there's some lore outthere that states that it can be
very dangerous to enter intothese things, but there's just
so much.
And then you start getting tothe thing where people are like
well, what could be so dangerousabout a circle of mushrooms?
Well, to the English and Celtictales, any human that would
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enter into a fairy ring wouldend up being forced to dance
with the creatures, and theywere unable to stop until they
either went mad or they justbasically died from exhaustion.
You know you think, oh yeah, oh, I can dance.
You know, you know, look, ifyou're having to dance for an
eternity or until you pass outand die.
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You know that was the thing.
You have Dutch traditions outthere that tell you that the
rings were created by the devilhimself and what he would do is
he would have that's where hebasically would churn milk and
that any livestock that enteredinto that circle, they would
basically suffer by having theirown milk, sour, I guess.
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And then you have Austrians umlegends that you know said
dragons burn the ground aroundthere, and that's where you know
, that's how you get fairy ringsand stuff like that.
There's.
There's so, so many differentconcepts behind these fairy
rings.
You even have, like there's awell old Welsh tradition, and it
varies a little bit, about theconsequences of a human's
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arrival into the fairy ring andthat the rings aren't actually
brought about by fairiesthemselves but by the nature of
their world and according to thelegend, um, the pace of the
fairy world differs differs fromthat than our pace.
So you, basically, you'retaking like two different planes
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of existence and they're moving, you know, at different speeds,
um, and that, with that beingthe case, a person could dance
for a minute in a fairy ring,only to discover that it had
been days or weeks in our humanrealm.
So you could sit there and Iguess you could say that if you
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entered into a fairy ring anddanced for 10 minutes, you might
come back into the human worldand it could have been 100 years
and that's why you're dead.
So there's a lot of interestingstuff, um, when you're going
into that darker side aboutfairy rings.
But then again, not all mythsand legends and folklore
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surrounding fairy rings arequite so dark.
You have some legends out therethat say that fairy wings are
actually really good luck.
Um, you know that most, mostyour legends and folklore tales
don't suggest entering into them, but some of them do say that
there's a good omen and youshould grow your stocks and keep
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your livestock and stuff andfeeds around fairy rings because
it'll help improve fertilityand it will help with, like,
good fortune.
Um, over in Germany, the fairyrings down there.
They were called witches ringsor hexen ring and they were
believed to be places wherewitches would come and dance and
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celebrate, um, the Walpurgisnight, which was a festival that
enters into or brings in thecoming of spring.
Um, you know now your fay andyour fairy folk and hidden folk.
You know, they're all.
You know.
They're usually typically, Iguess you could say, associated
with world otherworldlyphenomenon, um, and magic.
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And you know mysteries, um, butyou know even Shakespeare.
He alludes to a fair ring withappreciation.
I um, let me double check here.
It was, yeah, act two, sceneone of a midsummer's night
stream in which the fairies sayand I serve the fairy queen to
do her orbs upon the green.
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So you know it's, there's,there's so much history around
these and we still don't know.
You know science.
If we take the science stanceor you take the skeptical stance
, okay, it's just a occurrenceof the way the mushrooms grow in
the underground, rotting up andstuff, um, but then you have
all the unknowns and you knowother history behind it as well.
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You know, you figure, as theweathers start to cool and stuff
, you know, rings start poppingup all over the world and then
you know, of course, here we go.
You know our imaginations arelet loose once again, um, and
it's been going on for thousandsupon thousands of years now.
So when it comes to that aspect, I guess you could say it's
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going to be up to you to decide,with, like fairy rings and how
much you really really want togo into it, um.
So, moving forward a little bit,you know I want to talk about,
um, ireland's Glens.
You know, over there, you knowyou have witnesses and all types
of people that have recountsabout meetings with fairies and
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irons.
Ireland's a lush greenery outthere and this still ties in
some with the fairy rings thatwe're just talking about.
Or, um, the ring of wrath.
You know, there there's goodparts to it, like we've said.
You know they say if a couplecan't conceive, they can go
visit the wrath at certain timesof the year and ask the fairies
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for help.
Um, it's also the case likesomebody who's seeking to get
married married, they can make arequest to the fairies and
their ancestral spirits at thewrath and it says their wish is
granted, they will be marriedwithin a year, providing the
ritual has done correctly.
There's a lot of customs andrituals that go back and on.
There's also, um, I guess youcould say, a fairy gift
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associated with the ring ofwrath, and that is that
musicians can go there and sleepovernight during one of the
ancient festivals and certaindates and that when they awake
they will receive the gift, giftof otherworldly musicianship.
Now, of course, my, my theoryand this follows along with
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folklore and other legends of ofit is, when you're going and
doing something, there is goingto be a price.
Now, what that price is, youknow I don't know.
There's always a price.
It's the whole deal with thedevil and you know you get this
great gift given to you, butthere is a cost and there's not.
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I just didn't find enoughinformation just yet on this,
this first episode.
Who say what those costs were?
But you know, it's just, it'scrazy and you know that's just
how it goes and people believeit.
There's a lot of belief in this.
You know, like if a person oreven a child goes missing in a
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lot of these places andcountries there's, the locals
jump right on it and theirattitudes actually change
towards the fairies.
For example, there's a case inWicklow A young girl vanished
for three days and that wholecommunity out there.
They went out there, searchingfor all over the place.
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They were looking in ditches,they were looking in the forest,
the woods, looking in fields,and they just couldn't find her.
The girl finally reappeared.
I think it was like three dayslater, three, four days later,
and when she told her parentsthat she had been taken, this
was what she said she had beentaken away by tiny little red
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men and nothing was questionedof her about that.
The girl said she managed toovercome her ordeal and she even
took them to the site inlocation where she was abducted
and the town.
Nobody chastised her oranything.
What they ended up doing waspreserve that location and
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marked it off Because theydidn't want any other kids or
any other person to go andexperience the same ordeal or
suffer that same fate in the end.
And that's how strongly theybelieve in that culture.
I can only imagine the distressof having to look for my child
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when they were little, but italso ties back to your whole
communities.
They come together and that'sone of those things that I wish
society nowadays.
More of us would all just cometogether.
Naturally, I wish it wasn'tgonna take things.
It all is disbared, iteverybody to do something, but
that's just how it is.
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And then doing some more readingout there, the biggest thing
I've noticed is that when peopleclaim to have returned from a
fairy realm and there seems tobe different realms out there,
their lives are often changedforever Just by recounting what
has happened to them.
There's another example outthere it was an Irish example
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about a woman being abducted bya fairy.
She went missing overnight andwhen she returned she told
everybody that had beensearching for her that she was
in a lovely city and saw lovelywomen and they all bowed to her
and it's almost like acontemporary I guess you could
say parallel to UFO abductions,but where this lady was
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describing more advancedtechnology and fairies rather
than aliens and probes.
So there's just a lot going onwithin this.
There's so much.
This could be a whole seriesjust devoted on fairies if I
really wanted to break it downand I'll probably touch back on
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that more as well down the road.
But going from the early middleages up into the 20th century,
many people living in ruralcountryside of Europe have the
wild aspect of nature was.
I guess back in those daysnature was still untamed.
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You had dangers that lurked inthe woods and the water and it
was believed that the spiritsaround there, or the Fae and
Faeri folk, they jealously wouldguard their territories and if
you happen to trespass upon itor cross their paths, they're
going to punish you.
Now, on the other hand, you hadmany aspects where people
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believed that the spirits couldbe very helpful.
When treated with respect, ahuman might be blessed or
rewarded by befriending certainspirits and Fae and Faeri folk,
or the hidden.
But because spirits just likeus, we're capable of good and
bad tempers, your Faeri folk,they're just as bad.
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They can have good days, theycan have bad days.
So throughout the course of allthese different cultures, it
comes down that the biggestwords of caution were to use
caution when approaching theseor when interacting with them.
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And this is really just anextension, I think, in general,
of the dangers back then, of theunknown that were posed and put
out there about entering theforest, just in general.
We don't have all thetechnology that we do now, and
woodlands and forests providedsubstance, building materials,
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medicinal plants and herbs, butthey were also to us humans.
They were home to fiercepredators that would stalk
throughout the woods of Europeand among, I guess all those
creatures back in the day thisfirst one is one of those that
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we'll cover down the road butthey were thought to be
werewolves.
There are bears and wild boarsand all types of other animals
out there.
So you had to basically keepyour head about you when you
were walking through the woodsand people would just become
paranoid because the fear of theunknown will influence you and
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it also, I strongly believe, thefear of the unknown has always
influenced our beliefs and thesebeliefs sometimes lead to
spiritual answers.
But I think there's a lot ofmisunderstanding of urnces.
So like getting lost, forexample, on a path or a road
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that you've always transversedmany times, over and over and
you know like you know like theback of your hand.
But let's say you got lost.
Well, back then, when peoplewould get lost for the same
situation of knowing they tookthe correct path, they did all
this their first thing was oh,it's the work of a mischievous
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fairy.
So in the end, this you knowthey're traveling and they get
lost because they followed anunnoticed trail that you know.
They just didn't notice.
You know now, all of a sudden,it's basically the work of that
fairy trying to lead them offinto another realm.
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So yeah, there's all types ofstuff.
And then there's other aspectsand influences and stuff,
because you could.
They're like the foods and theberries and stuff that they
might have ingested, because wedon't have that knowledge like
we did back then, you know,could it be a psychoactive plant
?
There's lots of plants outthere that can alter our
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perception and even causehallucinations, so that could
allow us access, I guess, toother worldly realms and to see
things or entities that wouldseem to exist all of a sudden,
depending on you know what weingested.
Now this kind of brings mearound to a discussion of DMT.
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You have many people out therewho will question what causes
their annoyance and what causessecond sight or things like that
, and that's a whole other showtopic to begin with.
But I'm not going to ask me tosay the scientific name because
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that would just be butchered,but I'm going to say, with DMT,
the molecule is one of the mainactive ingredients used by
Amazonian shamans.
It always has been.
They're used with some vines toproduce a brew and that brew
was called ayahuasca, which infolks I guess, radically states
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of consciousness and lots andlots of encounters, visuals.
But DMT was also produced, isalso produced, I guess you could
say, in our brains, naturally,even in the lungs, and you know,
plant.
Under certain circumstances itcan be released in a higher
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quantity that would cause a veryaltered state of consciousness.
That being said, in 1990 and 95, there was a general clinical
research center at theUniversity of New Mexico
Hospital and it was a Dr RickStrassman and he got volunteers
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and he injected them withvarying amounts of DMT and they
went underwent profoundalterations of consciousness.
I mean this involvedintermediate stations of normal
consciousness to transportationto different realms of reality
with like divergent metaphysicalproperties and inhabited with a
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plethora of different creaturesand a lot of them.
A lot of these people describeit as you know, encountering
creatures such as elves, fairies, lizards, reptiles, insects,
aliens, clowns, various variousentities.
One woman even described apulsating entity that she called
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Tinkerbell-like, and theexperience, especially at higher
doses, represented to theparticipants a complete parallel
reality that was super, super,like, real, like.
They did not believe they werehallucinating, it was not a
dream, it was substantially abuilt reality with full sensory
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interactions and telepathywithin the residential entities,
within and when I say a lot ofpeople, we're talking like.
2,561 testimonies were assessedand that was also assessed by
John Hopkins School of Medicinethere in Baltimore.
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So there was a lot of, a lot ofstuff.
The experiences they reportedcame from irrational, absurd,
frightening, illogicals, all theway down to surreal.
And there was no questions oflike the volunteers, like you
know, they're of them everactually leaving the hospital
bed during the experience.
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But all of them they say all ofthem, without any exceptions
the world that they went to wascompletely as real as the one
that they had left behind, likein their minds, it was true to
form.
So that research kind ofdemonstrates that under the
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right conditions, the humanconscious ness can operate
within distinct and a separateuniverse inhabited by a range of
different entities.
Now, how's this come in toeverything else?
It's, it's just saying that Iguess you could say you know,
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there's so many factors of likewe want to say oh.
We can't just say oh, no,fairies are real, but we can't
say they're not real.
You know, it's like somebodyeats something and take a
certain drug or do anything, orare some of us just more attuned
to things.
When it comes down to it, youknow there's a lot, there's a
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lot of, I guess you could justsay questionings, and that kind
of brings us back to more fairyexperiences of what are these
fairies that have been a part ofhumanity for thousands of years
, like, where do they come from?
Are they adapting to culturalcodes or involving into new
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forms and what level of realitydo they actually exist?
Now there's a gentleman out whowas out there, david Loot.
He did a three partinterpretation for non physical
entity contact is what he calledit, and he used it to access, I
guess they study intootherworldly beings, many of
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which these beings were mainlylike, I guess, fairies, or had
very like attributes that wereencountered by people who had
altered states of consciousnesswith DMT.
This is where I'm tying thisback into the DMT thing, but it
is.
But it was also a valid tool toevaluate what may be happening
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to anybody who reports anexperience that includes
interaction with non humanintelligent entities such as
fairy.
So his three parts to it firstare they are hallucinations.
I guess you could say thatentities are subjective
hallucinations, such as aposition in favor by those
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taking a purelyneuropsychological approach to
the phenomenon, so amaterialistic reductionist.
Two would be they arepsychological slash,
transpersonal manifestations,which is, you know,
communicating entities appearalien, but they're actually
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unfamiliar aspects of ourselves,be they are reptilian brain or
ourselves, molecules or subatomic particles going into it.
And then, thirdly, the entitiesexist in other worlds.
They can interact with ourphysical reality.
A numerous experience provideaccess to true, altered
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dimensional dimensions inhabitedbasically by independently
existing intelligent entities.
They stand alone reality Nowthat exists co-laterally with
ours and we may interact withour world when certain
conditions are met.
But then identity of entitiesremain Spectatively lived to us.
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But then, when the conditionsare met, we can coexist and, I
guess you say, bleed off intoanother realm or reality.
Now, of course, all three ofthese interpretations could be
true at different times andunder various circumstances,
within one individual's lifethrough the next.
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From a materialistic Reductionstandpoint, all very experiences
could be reduced straight downto hallucinatory events, meaning
that, nope, you saw this, oh,and in, not even just fairies.
You know, you can say thesealien reductions, bigfoot,
whatever.
From that material Listreduction standpoint, it's all
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because we're hallucinating,smooth, whatever reason, but
that's our own body, chemistryor Something external.
You know, it's just, that'sthat.
That's that standpoint.
And there is no physicalresidue as an after effect to
the interactions and the reports.
They're all going to be limitedto just visual and audio
experiences, but you have thespecific injunctions allowing
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for the hallucinations to takeplace and not be properly
analyzed, so there's no way todo that.
So seeing them all as Conflictrations of visual and audio
fields remains one Guess youcould say legit interpretation
or conclusion of that.
That model is still reliant onthe theory that consciousness is
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, you know, I guess, a byproductof the brain.
Implication is that the brain,for whatever reason, is simply
Misconstruing our sensory inputsfrom the physical world, where
things like fairies simply don'texist.
This is the hard, I guess, andfast standpoint of it all, which
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is I hate saying it, but it's,it's super embedded in Western
culture and it's, it's one ofthose standpoints that now I
think, should be challenged atnot only a fundamental level but
by religious and mysticaltraditions.
You know, there's just, there'smuch and there's there's a lot
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just going on.
You know it's, despite theadvances of modern technology,
the allora of Hidden folks stillpersist, very still persist.
People believe, and pop culture,movies, it's there, their
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presence is still felt inliterature, art, popular culture
, influences, stories, movies,podcast.
It's even expiring.
Modern spiritual practicesfocused on nature and spirits,
druidism is still coming back.
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You know, in today's world thebelief of hidden folk varies
greatly, but it's morecollective still, and while some
dismiss these as being meresuperstition of folk lord, other
people cherish this traditionand the stories are still being
passed down through generations,keeping their essence alive in
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our collective consciousness.
So, whatever their nature is, itseems, or Fairy folk or the
hidden folk, or the hooded folk,to make contact with humanity
it requires our consciousness tobecome loosened from the usual
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restraints and entered almostinto an altered state.
And when I say that, I'm notsaying, okay, go do drugs, I'm
saying think about it.
And I and I can attest to thisfirsthand Today stresses in the
world have us so tightly wound,and our brains so this, that
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it's ridiculous, whereas ifRewind, for 500 years we were
more open, we were more Accepted, we were in a loosened state,
um, from the restraints outthere, we weren't necessarily in
an altered state, but we werechill.
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So if the model of reality isaffirmed by those statements out
there, and I guess if we'reallowing Access to a greater
overall mind when the existenceof entities and fairy folk can
be represented either as astandard loan plus of their own,
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or Maybe perhaps it's just thataspect of the human collective
unconsciousness out there, buteither way, it just appears.
You know fairies are here tostay.
They're functioning on someNebulous plane where any
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interpretation of them isreliant on us finding a way to
incorporate consciousness Into aphysical reality.
This is something that still tothis day, it's alluded both
philosophers.
It eludes the scientists, evenjust general people who like
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looking into this stuff.
It's been going on formillennia, and so perhaps it's
no surprise that fairy entities,whether their nature, spirits
or aliens or Interdimensionalbeings or products of our
collective imagination, nomatter what they are for the
moment and still, and I think,for Quite some time, they're
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gonna remain an intangible butenduring part of our culture
that we have out there.
So this is gonna.
This is gonna kind of wrap itup right now.
I got there's so much I wantedto tie in and go down and, you
know, call me rusty because Ihaven't.
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I haven't done a radio podcastor anything, and God, it's been
ten years when I stepped out ofthe field.
But it'll get better, I promise, and we will come back and
touch deeper into a lot of thisstuff.
But I just want to say, as weconclude our journey into the
mystical world of the hiddenfolk.
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The presence remains atestament to humanity's
fascination with the unknown,whether embodiments of nature's
guardians, pigments of ourimagination or just something
beyond our understanding thelegacy of the hidden folk
indoors Nestled within the heartof folklore and legend.
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But thank you for joining me onthis enchanting exploration Into
the hidden folk, and Iencourage you all to embrace the
wonders of the unknown andcontinue to seek the magic that
resides in our world.
As our journey through themysterious concludes, we step
back from the shadows, but theirsecrets linger.
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Remember in the quiet cornersof the world, mysteries still
whisper their tales.
And so we meet again, staycurious, embrace the darkness.
Never forget that truth oftenthrives in the most unexpected
places.
As we part ways, may you alwaysfind fascination in the unknown
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and the courage to explore thedepths of the unexplained you.
Welcome to Legends from the Shadows, tales of the
Unexplained.
I'm your host, eric Dion, andI'll be your guide through the
mysteries that lurk beyond theordinary.
Join me as we peel back theveil on legends, myths and
enigmas that have nestledthemselves in the shadowy
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corners of history.
From cryptic creatures to eerieoccurrences, we'll embark on a
journey to uncover the truth,mysteries and whispers that have
captivated curious minds forcenturies.
Get ready to venture into theunknown, where the line between
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fact and folklore blur and thestories that dwell in the
shadows come to light.
Greetings, dear listeners.
Today we embark on a mysticaljourney into the realm of the
hidden folk, creatures offolklore and myth that have
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enchanted cultures worldwide forcenturies.
Join me as we uncover theirhistory, sightings and enduring
presence in the modern worldthat we know it.
So the hidden folk are alsoknown as elves, fairies or other
ethereal beings.
They've inhabited thecollective imaginations of
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humankind for ages now.
These elusive creatures, oftenresiding in hidden realms or
within nature itself, are set topossess extraordinary powers
and live parallel to our ownworld.
But what lies behind thesetales?
That's one of the biggestquestions right now, and that's
what I want to delve deeper into, their history and their lore.
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The origins of the hidden folkare also known in Icelandic
folklore.
The hundan folk are deeplyintertwined with the rich
tapestry of North mythology andthe cultural beliefs that the
Nordic people had.
Now, these mythical beings arebelieved to have traced their
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lineage to ancient pagan beliefsthat predate the
Christianization of the region.
In North mythology there's arich tradition of supernatural
beings, including elves, dwarvesand other mythical entities,
which likely influence theconceptuation of what we know or
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refer to as the hidden folk.
The roots of the hundan folkmight also be connected to the
ideal of land spirits or naturespirits that were revered by
Nordic societies.
These beings were believed toinhabit specific natural
locations such as rocks, forests, caves, and they were also seen
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, though, as guardians orprotectors of these places.
Now, over time and, I guess,culture, these nature spirits
became intertwined with folkloresurrounding the hidden folk how
, I don't really know, but a lotof the contributing factors to
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it and contributing to theirassociation with certain
landscapes and their roles ascustodians, basically, of the
environment.
Now, legends passed downthrough generations that further
embellished the origins of thehidden folk.
They weave tales of theircreations and existence into
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parallel with humans.
There are some stories outthere that suggest they are
descendants of the Norse godsthemselves, while others depict
them as being born from theearth, itself tied to the
natural elements that wereimbued with magical abilities.
Now, both these narratives canvary across regions, reflecting
the diverse cultural beliefs andoral tradition of what we would
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know and consider as Nordicpeople.
The origins of the hidden folkare persistent as a blend of
ancient mythologies.
You know, you have your folkbeliefs and your cultural
heritage that have evolvedthrough the centuries of
storytelling and shaping thecollective imagination of the
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Nordic communities.
Now there's specifics of theirorigins that might differ from
one tale to the other, but theenduring fascination with these
mythical beings continues toenrich the fabric of the Nordic
region.
So, in the end, when we'retouching, based on history and
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lore, the folklore surroundingthe hidden folk has just
transcended cultures andcivilizations from way, way back
From the Scandinavian talesthat said that the hidden folk
dwelling in places to Celticbelief in these slide are
residing mounds.
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They have woven themselves intothe tapestry of other numerous
mythologies.
Legends describe the hiddenfolk as guardians of nature,
possessing both a mischief andbenevolence, which you know.
That's kind of go If you can'tsee something, you're going to
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be afraid.
You know, we're all usuallyafraid of the unknown.
That's what, that's what causesfear and that's what can cause
so many misconceptions.
You have stories of encounterswith these beings, ranging from
helpful interactions with humansto like cautionary tales of
those who dare to serve thedomains of the hidden folk.
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Throughout history, there'ssightings and interactions with
the hidden folk have beenreported, and each account keeps
adding more and more layers totheir mystique.
Okay, so let's explore somenotable, I guess, say, sightings
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and encounters that havecontributed to the lore of the
hidden folk.
I want to start off by touchingbase over in Iceland,
specifically near Reykjavik.
Back in, I want to say it's2014, they were supposed to be
building a highway that wouldlink the Alphins Peninsula to
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the Reykjavik suburb, nearGardevar, or Gardevar, if I'm
pronouncing it wrong.
I do apologize.
I'm awful at pronunciations andstuff, but this road was
actually halted from being donefor a bit because they had
campaigners protesters out therewarning that if they disturbed
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the elf habitat and theprotected area around it, that
there would be nothing buttrouble.
There was two particular spotsthat were in question at that
time One they actually hadlabeled as Elf Church and the
other one was labeled as ElfChapel.
Now let me be very, very clearand distinct here.
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When saying elf and fairies andstuff like that, I'm not
talking like you're what mostpeople say.
Oh, you know Santa's elves,these little guys that pointy
ears, you know green, purple,pink, whatever color out there.
Now, actually, when we'retalking about hidden folks and
the fey and elves and stuff,they're actually the same size
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as us.
Some can be tall, some short,some fat, some thin.
You know, it's not what weperceive, it never has been it.
Just they are hidden to us.
So, that being done, and said,they had these two spots that
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the locals and everybody did notwant to mess with because they
were said to be fairy locationsor elf locations.
In the end, the matter ended upbeing resolved in part.
There was a local lady there.
She claimed to talk to the feyand she was given a chance that
she went and did her thing.
She said she spoke with themand they ended up mediating and
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they came to an agreement thatthe road could be done as long
as the elf's chapel wascarefully moved in place
elsewhere, and that's what theydid.
Now we're talking about a 70ton rock and I don't know the
cost of moving stuff like thatvery carefully.
All I know is I'm trying tolook up into information that
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the highway authority still tothis day will not reveal the
cost that it cost them to movethat rock and they had to hire a
bunch of cranes and stuff inthe end.
So that's one of the ones thatI followed for a while, just
trying to get more and moreinformation on it here and there
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.
So yeah, iceland, it's such abeautiful country, from the hot
springs to just the countryside,but they're deep enriched
folklore surrounding the elves.
It's just something amazing.
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They even have a fairy schoolthere that you can enroll in,
and that, to me, is just one ofthose things that I'm just like.
You know, this is great stuff.
Let's move on now and let'stalk about Fairy Ring.
Now, there's a lot that goes onwith the Fairy Ring.
So if you break it down on ascience level, it says you know,
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basically, science says thatfairy rings are patterns of
certain types of mushrooms thatgrow in a circular formation,
are naturally occurringphenomena and they usually
appear year after year on lawnsor in fields or in the forest.
But Fairy Rings they occur whenmushroom spores fall in a
favorable spot and then theyspread out and basically there's
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an underground network of finetubular threads called hyphen.
Now the mushroom caps thenappear at the edge of these
networks that are formedunderground and formation
continues to expand upward andthey use all this nutrients
within them as they grow largerand larger.
And you know there's a ring inBelfort, france, that was
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considered, and still isconsidered, the largest ever
seen.
I think it measuresapproximately a little over
2,000 feet in diameter and it'sover 700 years old.
Like it's been coming back andback and back and back, which is
crazy.
Now the lore behind a lot ofthis is people regard fairy
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rings with a strong sense ofcuriosity and fear because they
believe them to have mysticaland be places of supernatural
powers.
Within folklore we can tellthat cultures across Europe have
traditionally believed thatfairy rings were the dwelling
places and portals into thefairy worlds elves, witches and
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all types of other magicalcreatures, and some of them.
You know there's some lore outthere that states that it can be
very dangerous to enter intothese things, but there's just
so much.
And then you start getting tothe thing where people are like
well, what could be so dangerousabout a circle of mushrooms?
Well, to the English and Celtictales, any human that would
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enter into a fairy ring wouldend up being forced to dance
with the creatures, and theywere unable to stop until they
either went mad or they justbasically died from exhaustion.
You know you think, oh yeah, oh, I can dance.
You know, you know, look, ifyou're having to dance for an
eternity or until you pass outand die.
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You know that was the thing.
You have Dutch traditions outthere that tell you that the
rings were created by the devilhimself and what he would do is
he would have that's where hebasically would churn milk and
that any livestock that enteredinto that circle, they would
basically suffer by having theirown milk, sour, I guess.
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And then you have Austrians umlegends that you know said
dragons burn the ground aroundthere, and that's where you know
, that's how you get fairy ringsand stuff like that.
There's.
There's so, so many differentconcepts behind these fairy
rings.
You even have, like there's awell old Welsh tradition, and it
varies a little bit, about theconsequences of a human's
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arrival into the fairy ring andthat the rings aren't actually
brought about by fairiesthemselves but by the nature of
their world and according to thelegend, um, the pace of the
fairy world differs differs fromthat than our pace.
So you, basically, you'retaking like two different planes
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of existence and they're moving, you know, at different speeds,
um, and that, with that beingthe case, a person could dance
for a minute in a fairy ring,only to discover that it had
been days or weeks in our humanrealm.
So you could sit there and Iguess you could say that if you
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entered into a fairy ring anddanced for 10 minutes, you might
come back into the human worldand it could have been 100 years
and that's why you're dead.
So there's a lot of interestingstuff, um, when you're going
into that darker side aboutfairy rings.
But then again, not all mythsand legends and folklore
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surrounding fairy rings arequite so dark.
You have some legends out therethat say that fairy wings are
actually really good luck.
Um, you know that most, mostyour legends and folklore tales
don't suggest entering into them, but some of them do say that
there's a good omen and youshould grow your stocks and keep
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your livestock and stuff andfeeds around fairy rings because
it'll help improve fertilityand it will help with, like,
good fortune.
Um, over in Germany, the fairyrings down there.
They were called witches ringsor hexen ring and they were
believed to be places wherewitches would come and dance and
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celebrate, um, the Walpurgisnight, which was a festival that
enters into or brings in thecoming of spring.
Um, you know now your fay andyour fairy folk and hidden folk.
You know, they're all.
You know.
They're usually typically, Iguess you could say, associated
with world otherworldlyphenomenon, um, and magic.
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And you know mysteries, um, butyou know even Shakespeare.
He alludes to a fair ring withappreciation.
I um, let me double check here.
It was, yeah, act two, sceneone of a midsummer's night
stream in which the fairies sayand I serve the fairy queen to
do her orbs upon the green.
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So you know it's, there's,there's so much history around
these and we still don't know.
You know science.
If we take the science stanceor you take the skeptical stance
, okay, it's just a occurrenceof the way the mushrooms grow in
the underground, rotting up andstuff, um, but then you have
all the unknowns and you knowother history behind it as well.
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You know, you figure, as theweathers start to cool and stuff
, you know, rings start poppingup all over the world and then
you know, of course, here we go.
You know our imaginations arelet loose once again, um, and
it's been going on for thousandsupon thousands of years now.
So when it comes to that aspect, I guess you could say it's
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going to be up to you to decide,with, like fairy rings and how
much you really really want togo into it, um.
So, moving forward a little bit,you know I want to talk about,
um, ireland's Glens.
You know, over there, you knowyou have witnesses and all types
of people that have recountsabout meetings with fairies and
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irons.
Ireland's a lush greenery outthere and this still ties in
some with the fairy rings thatwe're just talking about.
Or, um, the ring of wrath.
You know, there there's goodparts to it, like we've said.
You know they say if a couplecan't conceive, they can go
visit the wrath at certain timesof the year and ask the fairies
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for help.
Um, it's also the case likesomebody who's seeking to get
married married, they can make arequest to the fairies and
their ancestral spirits at thewrath and it says their wish is
granted, they will be marriedwithin a year, providing the
ritual has done correctly.
There's a lot of customs andrituals that go back and on.
There's also, um, I guess youcould say, a fairy gift
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associated with the ring ofwrath, and that is that
musicians can go there and sleepovernight during one of the
ancient festivals and certaindates and that when they awake
they will receive the gift, giftof otherworldly musicianship.
Now, of course, my, my theoryand this follows along with
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folklore and other legends of ofit is, when you're going and
doing something, there is goingto be a price.
Now, what that price is, youknow I don't know.
There's always a price.
It's the whole deal with thedevil and you know you get this
great gift given to you, butthere is a cost and there's not.
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I just didn't find enoughinformation just yet on this,
this first episode.
Who say what those costs were?
But you know, it's just, it'scrazy and you know that's just
how it goes and people believeit.
There's a lot of belief in this.
You know, like if a person oreven a child goes missing in a
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lot of these places andcountries there's, the locals
jump right on it and theirattitudes actually change
towards the fairies.
For example, there's a case inWicklow A young girl vanished
for three days and that wholecommunity out there.
They went out there, searchingfor all over the place.
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They were looking in ditches,they were looking in the forest,
the woods, looking in fields,and they just couldn't find her.
The girl finally reappeared.
I think it was like three dayslater, three, four days later,
and when she told her parentsthat she had been taken, this
was what she said she had beentaken away by tiny little red
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men and nothing was questionedof her about that.
The girl said she managed toovercome her ordeal and she even
took them to the site inlocation where she was abducted
and the town.
Nobody chastised her oranything.
What they ended up doing waspreserve that location and
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marked it off Because theydidn't want any other kids or
any other person to go andexperience the same ordeal or
suffer that same fate in the end.
And that's how strongly theybelieve in that culture.
I can only imagine the distressof having to look for my child
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when they were little, but italso ties back to your whole
communities.
They come together and that'sone of those things that I wish
society nowadays.
More of us would all just cometogether.
Naturally, I wish it wasn'tgonna take things.
It all is disbared, iteverybody to do something, but
that's just how it is.
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And then doing some more readingout there, the biggest thing
I've noticed is that when peopleclaim to have returned from a
fairy realm and there seems tobe different realms out there,
their lives are often changedforever Just by recounting what
has happened to them.
There's another example outthere it was an Irish example
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about a woman being abducted bya fairy.
She went missing overnight andwhen she returned she told
everybody that had beensearching for her that she was
in a lovely city and saw lovelywomen and they all bowed to her
and it's almost like acontemporary I guess you could
say parallel to UFO abductions,but where this lady was
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describing more advancedtechnology and fairies rather
than aliens and probes.
So there's just a lot going onwithin this.
There's so much.
This could be a whole seriesjust devoted on fairies if I
really wanted to break it downand I'll probably touch back on
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that more as well down the road.
But going from the early middleages up into the 20th century,
many people living in ruralcountryside of Europe have the
wild aspect of nature was.
I guess back in those daysnature was still untamed.
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You had dangers that lurked inthe woods and the water and it
was believed that the spiritsaround there, or the Fae and
Faeri folk, they jealously wouldguard their territories and if
you happen to trespass upon itor cross their paths, they're
going to punish you.
Now, on the other hand, you hadmany aspects where people
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believed that the spirits couldbe very helpful.
When treated with respect, ahuman might be blessed or
rewarded by befriending certainspirits and Fae and Faeri folk,
or the hidden.
But because spirits just likeus, we're capable of good and
bad tempers, your Faeri folk,they're just as bad.
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They can have good days, theycan have bad days.
So throughout the course of allthese different cultures, it
comes down that the biggestwords of caution were to use
caution when approaching theseor when interacting with them.
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And this is really just anextension, I think, in general,
of the dangers back then, of theunknown that were posed and put
out there about entering theforest, just in general.
We don't have all thetechnology that we do now, and
woodlands and forests providedsubstance, building materials,
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medicinal plants and herbs, butthey were also to us humans.
They were home to fiercepredators that would stalk
throughout the woods of Europeand among, I guess all those
creatures back in the day thisfirst one is one of those that
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we'll cover down the road butthey were thought to be
werewolves.
There are bears and wild boarsand all types of other animals
out there.
So you had to basically keepyour head about you when you
were walking through the woodsand people would just become
paranoid because the fear of theunknown will influence you and
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it also, I strongly believe, thefear of the unknown has always
influenced our beliefs and thesebeliefs sometimes lead to
spiritual answers.
But I think there's a lot ofmisunderstanding of urnces.
So like getting lost, forexample, on a path or a road
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that you've always transversedmany times, over and over and
you know like you know like theback of your hand.
But let's say you got lost.
Well, back then, when peoplewould get lost for the same
situation of knowing they tookthe correct path, they did all
this their first thing was oh,it's the work of a mischievous
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fairy.
So in the end, this you knowthey're traveling and they get
lost because they followed anunnoticed trail that you know.
They just didn't notice.
You know now, all of a sudden,it's basically the work of that
fairy trying to lead them offinto another realm.
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So yeah, there's all types ofstuff.
And then there's other aspectsand influences and stuff,
because you could.
They're like the foods and theberries and stuff that they
might have ingested, because wedon't have that knowledge like
we did back then, you know,could it be a psychoactive plant
?
There's lots of plants outthere that can alter our
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perception and even causehallucinations, so that could
allow us access, I guess, toother worldly realms and to see
things or entities that wouldseem to exist all of a sudden,
depending on you know what weingested.
Now this kind of brings mearound to a discussion of DMT.
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You have many people out therewho will question what causes
their annoyance and what causessecond sight or things like that
, and that's a whole other showtopic to begin with.
But I'm not going to ask me tosay the scientific name because
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that would just be butchered,but I'm going to say, with DMT,
the molecule is one of the mainactive ingredients used by
Amazonian shamans.
It always has been.
They're used with some vines toproduce a brew and that brew
was called ayahuasca, which infolks I guess, radically states
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of consciousness and lots andlots of encounters, visuals.
But DMT was also produced, isalso produced, I guess you could
say, in our brains, naturally,even in the lungs, and you know,
plant.
Under certain circumstances itcan be released in a higher
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quantity that would cause a veryaltered state of consciousness.
That being said, in 1990 and 95, there was a general clinical
research center at theUniversity of New Mexico
Hospital and it was a Dr RickStrassman and he got volunteers
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and he injected them withvarying amounts of DMT and they
went underwent profoundalterations of consciousness.
I mean this involvedintermediate stations of normal
consciousness to transportationto different realms of reality
with like divergent metaphysicalproperties and inhabited with a
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plethora of different creaturesand a lot of them.
A lot of these people describeit as you know, encountering
creatures such as elves, fairies, lizards, reptiles, insects,
aliens, clowns, various variousentities.
One woman even described apulsating entity that she called
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Tinkerbell-like, and theexperience, especially at higher
doses, represented to theparticipants a complete parallel
reality that was super, super,like, real, like.
They did not believe they werehallucinating, it was not a
dream, it was substantially abuilt reality with full sensory
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interactions and telepathywithin the residential entities,
within and when I say a lot ofpeople, we're talking like.
2,561 testimonies were assessedand that was also assessed by
John Hopkins School of Medicinethere in Baltimore.
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So there was a lot of, a lot ofstuff.
The experiences they reportedcame from irrational, absurd,
frightening, illogicals, all theway down to surreal.
And there was no questions oflike the volunteers, like you
know, they're of them everactually leaving the hospital
bed during the experience.
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But all of them they say all ofthem, without any exceptions
the world that they went to wascompletely as real as the one
that they had left behind, likein their minds, it was true to
form.
So that research kind ofdemonstrates that under the
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right conditions, the humanconscious ness can operate
within distinct and a separateuniverse inhabited by a range of
different entities.
Now, how's this come in toeverything else?
It's, it's just saying that Iguess you could say you know,
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there's so many factors of likewe want to say oh.
We can't just say oh, no,fairies are real, but we can't
say they're not real.
You know, it's like somebodyeats something and take a
certain drug or do anything, orare some of us just more attuned
to things.
When it comes down to it, youknow there's a lot, there's a
(30:41):
lot of, I guess you could justsay questionings, and that kind
of brings us back to more fairyexperiences of what are these
fairies that have been a part ofhumanity for thousands of years
, like, where do they come from?
Are they adapting to culturalcodes or involving into new
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forms and what level of realitydo they actually exist?
Now there's a gentleman out whowas out there, david Loot.
He did a three partinterpretation for non physical
entity contact is what he calledit, and he used it to access, I
guess they study intootherworldly beings, many of
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which these beings were mainlylike, I guess, fairies, or had
very like attributes that wereencountered by people who had
altered states of consciousnesswith DMT.
This is where I'm tying thisback into the DMT thing, but it
is.
But it was also a valid tool toevaluate what may be happening
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to anybody who reports anexperience that includes
interaction with non humanintelligent entities such as
fairy.
So his three parts to it firstare they are hallucinations.
I guess you could say thatentities are subjective
hallucinations, such as aposition in favor by those
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taking a purelyneuropsychological approach to
the phenomenon, so amaterialistic reductionist.
Two would be they arepsychological slash,
transpersonal manifestations,which is, you know,
communicating entities appearalien, but they're actually
(32:28):
unfamiliar aspects of ourselves,be they are reptilian brain or
ourselves, molecules or subatomic particles going into it.
And then, thirdly, the entitiesexist in other worlds.
They can interact with ourphysical reality.
A numerous experience provideaccess to true, altered
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dimensional dimensions inhabitedbasically by independently
existing intelligent entities.
They stand alone reality Nowthat exists co-laterally with
ours and we may interact withour world when certain
conditions are met.
But then identity of entitiesremain Spectatively lived to us.
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But then, when the conditionsare met, we can coexist and, I
guess you say, bleed off intoanother realm or reality.
Now, of course, all three ofthese interpretations could be
true at different times andunder various circumstances,
within one individual's lifethrough the next.
(33:34):
From a materialistic Reductionstandpoint, all very experiences
could be reduced straight downto hallucinatory events, meaning
that, nope, you saw this, oh,and in, not even just fairies.
You know, you can say thesealien reductions, bigfoot,
whatever.
From that material Listreduction standpoint, it's all
(33:56):
because we're hallucinating,smooth, whatever reason, but
that's our own body, chemistryor Something external.
You know, it's just, that'sthat.
That's that standpoint.
And there is no physicalresidue as an after effect to
the interactions and the reports.
They're all going to be limitedto just visual and audio
experiences, but you have thespecific injunctions allowing
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for the hallucinations to takeplace and not be properly
analyzed, so there's no way todo that.
So seeing them all as Conflictrations of visual and audio
fields remains one Guess youcould say legit interpretation
or conclusion of that.
That model is still reliant onthe theory that consciousness is
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, you know, I guess, a byproductof the brain.
Implication is that the brain,for whatever reason, is simply
Misconstruing our sensory inputsfrom the physical world, where
things like fairies simply don'texist.
This is the hard, I guess, andfast standpoint of it all, which
(35:06):
is I hate saying it, but it's,it's super embedded in Western
culture and it's, it's one ofthose standpoints that now I
think, should be challenged atnot only a fundamental level but
by religious and mysticaltraditions.
You know, there's just, there'smuch and there's there's a lot
(35:30):
just going on.
You know it's, despite theadvances of modern technology,
the allora of Hidden folks stillpersist, very still persist.
People believe, and pop culture,movies, it's there, their
(35:51):
presence is still felt inliterature, art, popular culture
, influences, stories, movies,podcast.
It's even expiring.
Modern spiritual practicesfocused on nature and spirits,
druidism is still coming back.
(36:12):
You know, in today's world thebelief of hidden folk varies
greatly, but it's morecollective still, and while some
dismiss these as being meresuperstition of folk lord, other
people cherish this traditionand the stories are still being
passed down through generations,keeping their essence alive in
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our collective consciousness.
So, whatever their nature is, itseems, or Fairy folk or the
hidden folk, or the hooded folk,to make contact with humanity
it requires our consciousness tobecome loosened from the usual
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restraints and entered almostinto an altered state.
And when I say that, I'm notsaying, okay, go do drugs, I'm
saying think about it.
And I and I can attest to thisfirsthand Today stresses in the
world have us so tightly wound,and our brains so this, that
(37:20):
it's ridiculous, whereas ifRewind, for 500 years we were
more open, we were more Accepted, we were in a loosened state,
um, from the restraints outthere, we weren't necessarily in
an altered state, but we werechill.
(37:43):
So if the model of reality isaffirmed by those statements out
there, and I guess if we'reallowing Access to a greater
overall mind when the existenceof entities and fairy folk can
be represented either as astandard loan plus of their own,
(38:05):
or Maybe perhaps it's just thataspect of the human collective
unconsciousness out there, buteither way, it just appears.
You know fairies are here tostay.
They're functioning on someNebulous plane where any
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interpretation of them isreliant on us finding a way to
incorporate consciousness Into aphysical reality.
This is something that still tothis day, it's alluded both
philosophers.
It eludes the scientists, evenjust general people who like
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looking into this stuff.
It's been going on formillennia, and so perhaps it's
no surprise that fairy entities,whether their nature, spirits
or aliens or Interdimensionalbeings or products of our
collective imagination, nomatter what they are for the
moment and still, and I think,for Quite some time, they're
(39:09):
gonna remain an intangible butenduring part of our culture
that we have out there.
So this is gonna.
This is gonna kind of wrap itup right now.
I got there's so much I wantedto tie in and go down and, you
know, call me rusty because Ihaven't.
(39:29):
I haven't done a radio podcastor anything, and God, it's been
ten years when I stepped out ofthe field.
But it'll get better, I promise, and we will come back and
touch deeper into a lot of thisstuff.
But I just want to say, as weconclude our journey into the
mystical world of the hiddenfolk.
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The presence remains atestament to humanity's
fascination with the unknown,whether embodiments of nature's
guardians, pigments of ourimagination or just something
beyond our understanding thelegacy of the hidden folk
indoors Nestled within the heartof folklore and legend.
(40:11):
But thank you for joining me onthis enchanting exploration Into
the hidden folk, and Iencourage you all to embrace the
wonders of the unknown andcontinue to seek the magic that
resides in our world.
As our journey through themysterious concludes, we step
back from the shadows, but theirsecrets linger.
(40:34):
Remember in the quiet cornersof the world, mysteries still
whisper their tales.
And so we meet again, staycurious, embrace the darkness.
Never forget that truth oftenthrives in the most unexpected
places.
As we part ways, may you alwaysfind fascination in the unknown
(40:57):
and the courage to explore thedepths of the unexplained you.
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