Fairie Theology

A while ago I read that even in the time of Chaucer fairies were believed to be something from a long time ago, that are no longer believed in. I heard a similar thing back in my Pagan days. People would talk about how their grandparents used to treat the fairies as though they were real.

The common view of the main-stream forthe last six hundred years seems to be that belief in fairies is dying out, which gets me thinking.

Žižek talks about the deferal of real belief in mythology. How, for instance, parents pretend to believe in Santa Claus for the children and children pretend to believe for thesake of presents and for the parent's benefit. But as long as belief can be differred to the other, ritual gift-giving can be carried out.

In the same way, belief in fairies is kept in our minds as a belief that we differ into the past, for the most part. This very distance feeds it of a symbol of some lost connection with the world. While, in a counter-move constant revivals of belief in fairies in the counter-culture maintains the main-stream in the long run because these revivals pass into the folk memory and in time become examples of people in the deep past believing in fairies.

This, of course, isn't to say fairies aren't real. I'm totally comfortable with the existence of fairies.

Unlike God, fairies have the decency to be amoral.