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Grace Notes: Fairy Music
The allure of folklore and folktales has inspired artists, choreographers, composers, dramatists, musicians, poets and writers throughout time. One popular folkloric character, the fairy, may be traced to medieval times, often describing mortal women who have gained magical powers. Katharine Briggs in her book An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and Other Supernatural Creatures notes that the term fairy originally expressed "one species of those supernatural creatures of a middle nature between man and angels...varying in size, in powers, in span of life and in moral attributes, but sharply differing from other species such as ...Tags:
Posted by MargieF on June 29, 2009 3:47 PM
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