Visions, Apparitions, Alien Vistors by Hilary Evans

If fairies had died in most of the western world by, say, 1900 and UFOs started making a nuisance of themselves in the 1950s, what came in between? Stray hot air balloons and the occasional air ship don’t really do it. But that in itself begs another question, one that is far more interesting.

Does that mean that fewer UFOs were seen in areas where the fairy faith survived? The problem with this is that there is arguably nowhere where the fairy faith survived into the 1950s let alone the twenty-first century with any strength. So let’s say aliens/fairies are just different ages reading ecstatic experiences in their own way: in the fifteenth century Gawain and the Green Knight was the point of reference, in the twenty-first, Star Trek the Next Generation.

It was late, there was also a disco across the road…īut he was left with some questions of his own. Narváez), very excited about the nature of knowledge and Beachcombing with his simple abstract-allergic mind was unable to follow the arguments. PMR then gets, at the end of his article, (to be found in T he Good People: New Fairylore Essays, Kentucky 1991, ed. There are humans who have special gifts at ‘channeling’ (horrible word) ‘fairies’ or ‘aliens’ – fairy doctors or cultists. They take children or nursing mothers (fairies) or they borrow sperm and eggs (aliens) and both, from time to time, have sex with humans. Both particularly prey on humanity for sexual purposes. So much so that by the end of it he couldn’t believe that he’d never seen the connection between fairies and ‘alien’ sightings: and it is always a good sign, surely, when a writer makes you feel stupid?įairies and ‘aliens’ are often described as ‘shining’.įairies and ‘aliens’ are ambivalent forces: for great good or great evil in individuals’ lives – angry fairies have ‘fairy blasts’, aliens have laser rays and radiation burns.įairies and ‘aliens’ need humanity.

When he recently then stumbled across ‘Between One Eye Blink and the Next: Fairies, UFOs and Problems of Knowledge’ he reached for his cognitive pencil. Beachcombing has never bothered to write them down, but he has a mental list of irritating academic titles ranging from ‘The Erotics of Medieval Backgammon’ to the ‘Semiotics of Transgression in Aquitanian Saints Lives’ etc etc etc.

Visions, Apparitions, Alien Vistors by Hilary Evans