Cian returns to the mystical, mythical, WW1-era pastoral English fairyland only to find that it’s become a weird British indie film hellscape of death, hallucinations, and poor life decisions in the SECOND of his Cottingley Fairy film analyses, this time talking about the 1997 movie PHOTOGRAPHING FAIRIES. Plus, as the film section is a bit short this time around, enjoy a bit of background about the extremely weird ‘Turanian Dwarf Theory’ in which writers and anthropologists came to believe that folkloric dwarfs and fairies are memories of an ancient prehistoric race of subhumans …
SOURCES:
Strange And Secret Peoples, Carole Silver
https://books.google.ie/books?id=3GeN25gJZK0C&pg=PT153&lpg=PT153&dq=turanian+dwarf+theory&source=bl&ots=zuY-wpeZUu&sig=ACfU3U32W4kyakxoirgnKqXVpr3UAf1rAw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjB2MOio6DuAhUVZxUIHcyYCPAQ6AEwEHoECAYQAg#v=onepage&q=turanian%20dwarf%20theory&f=false
Some Backgrounds Of Fairyland, HP Lovecraft
http://www.wikithulhu.com/article:some-backgrounds-of-fairyland
The Watcher By The Threshold, John Buchan
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57402