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 Portly Politico 