No, dear reader, this post isn’t another screed against ghoulish sexual perverts, despite what the title might suggest. It’s a fun installment of Myersvision, the intermittent series of whimsical posts from our senior correspondent, Audre Myers.
I reached out to some of my regular contributors to see if anyone had anything for me, and Audre whipped up this short, charming piece about alleged goblins and faeries—well, pixies—roaming the English countryside. She notes that one YouTuber has around 400,000 subscribers, and asks, “So who’s crazy?”
Well, my money is still on the people that think CGI pixies are real, and the only Goblin I believe in is the Italian synth rock band.
At least, for now. I’ll never forget learning about the Scottish researcher in the nineteenth century who went looking for faeries, because if he could prove faeries and other supernatural or folkloric creatures were real, he could prove God’s Existence. After all, if God Exists, there is surely a rich world of supernatural entities—angels and demons (of which I am thoroughly convinced are real), but also all manner of other creatures. The Bible speaks of giants and Behemoth. Who’s to say dragons (clearly dinosaurs) weren’t swooping around causing trouble? The Bible speaks of dragons, too.
All things to consider for another day. For now, here’s Audre, taking us on a tour of the mystical English countryside:
The English have a lovely expression for someone they think is nuts – that person is “away with the fairies”. Pretty, right? There has often been talk there of the fairies at the ‘bottom of the garden’. Wonderful little visuals, aren’t they? Well … evidently, they’ve got pixies, too. Yes – pixies. Erwin Saunders has the best video capture of pixies in this particular video:
…but you do have to go through the video to get to the pixies. Now … I would like for you to notice, Saunders has 401k subscribers. So who’s crazy?
And one goblin video:
In case you didn’t guess, I’m an Anglophile – I love the English and their land. If I weren’t American, I’d be English. Look up the Ribble Valley – looks like prime Hobbit territory to me.
A wonderful look at the English countryside can be found every Sunday on The Conservative Woman. Margaret Ashworth has a series called Notes from the Sticks and they are delightful. It’s like taking a walk with her every week and it’s charming and informative and Margaret is a wonderful writer. Do check her out this coming Sunday.