Fairies and Flying Saucers: The Enduring Continuity of Folklore in Modern Mystery
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Old fairy lore endures by being reinterpreted as alien encounters, as shown by John Stedman’s tiny fairy, Robert Kirk’s Secret Commonwealth, Jacques Vallée’s Passport to Magonia, and the 1960s cases of Joe Simonton, Gary Wilcox, and Lonnie Zamora, which feature small beings, unusual crafts, and curious exchanges that blur the line between folklore and modern mystery.
