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Worldbuilding Bookclub's avatar

I've never thought about the differences between a tight and loose masquerade. What a great explanation! I need to think about this further...

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Eric Hinkle's avatar

I like the suggestion that Shakespeare was, courtesy of 'Midsummer Night's Dream', part of an Elizabethan black ops campaign to obfuscate the truth about the Fae for whatever reasons.

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Mary Catelli's avatar

😁

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Eric Hinkle's avatar

Given how brutal the classic Fae were, according to books like Katharine Briggs' Encyclopedia of Fairies, it'd make good sense to make sure that few people knew how to get their attention.

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Mary Catelli's avatar

Wiser, however, for as many as possible to know how to ward it off.

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Eric Hinkle's avatar

That was relatively simple, wasn't it? Iron, the cross, sometimes turning your clothes inside out. And of course 'mind your manners, always' which is good advice for anyone in pre-modern societies. Modern ones, too.

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Mary Catelli's avatar

Perhaps the fae are running the masquerade in hope that people will forget.

Then it was horribly variable. Bells? Sometimes yes, sometimes the fae themselves wore bells.

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