The darkness under the stairs or off the path in the forest or in our neighbor’s heart.”
There are things that are bigger than us that we glimpse and things that we cannot even conceive: things that are, in any case, beyond our control. “If I had to sum it up, though, I’d say they teach us modesty. “ uphold morality, enforce taboos, connect to divinity, warn against dangers and, most importantly, entertain,” Young says. The mythical creatures found in folklore do a lot of different jobs, says Simon Young, a British historian of folklore and co-editor/co-author of the book Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies, 500 AD to the Present. In the show, these creatures are feared – and humans restrict their freedoms because of it. In the case of Amazon Prime Video’s fantasy noir series Carnival Row, for example, viewers are introduced to a world in which fabled beings like faeries and fauns live as “immigrants” amongst humans in a war-torn land. Even today, legendary beasts and beings continue to captivate us as stories of old receive contemporary updates in books, movies and on television.
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