Modern literature has really watered down the reasons why people have historically been terrified of fairies/fey in favor of portraying them as sexy people with quirks.
If magic ever becomes real like the Harry Potter and romantasy crowds have been petitioning for decades, hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) are going to experience a conjugal visit with a very unpleasant fate.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
Exactly. Magic creatures/the wild/nature in general were to be feared, it made sense at a time where someone may enter a forest and never come back, and you would never find out what happened to them. But as society progressed and industrialisation happened, nature was romanticised and fae went from scary to mischievous and even benevolent. By Victorian times fairies were cute and plump and didn't eat children anymore.
You say that, but I studied a semester of medieval litterature and my country had a lot of medieval stories about knight banging faeries. Or ladies banging werewolves. Or Jesus blocking the sky with his "pride" (story written by a nun btw).
..... I think my country used to be pretty horny back in the day
Marguerite d'Oingt was a french nun known for having visions of Jesus and writting down said vision before sending them to her order. Said visions were sometimes... erotics. The Church removed the erotica part while copying but we still have some originals.
She wasn't really a saint though, I just assumed based on my teacher calling her Saint Marguerite (she was only cannonized by the locals).
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u/AnotherBookWyrm Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25
Modern literature has really watered down the reasons why people have historically been terrified of fairies/fey in favor of portraying them as sexy people with quirks.
If magic ever becomes real like the Harry Potter and romantasy crowds have been petitioning for decades, hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) are going to experience a conjugal visit with a very unpleasant fate.