LITTLE, if anything, remains to be added to the genealogical records of fairies of Indo-European descent. But the comparative mythologist, while he has traced their pedigree, has not told us how ...

When I became a physicist, my dream was simple, even if ambitious: I wanted to understand nature, to build theories that would make predictions that would eventually be verified by experiments. I ...

There is a sudden reversal at the ending of Yeats’s “The Stolen Child.” In the first three stanzas we hear the call of the world inhabited by fairies—the waters and the wild, Sleuth Wood in the lake, ...

In 1917, two little girls in England photographed fairies dancing and playing around their garden. Their names were Elsie Wright and her cousin Frances Griffiths. The girls told Wright's father that ...

Welcome to an exploration of Ireland’s intriguing fairy forts—a phenomenon deeply embedded in Irish folklore and tradition.

Oh, the stories: Living in New York City and afraid of elevators. A look at plastic-bag bans in the United States and around the world. A National Geographic long read on the lives of nomads in the ...

There was a period of time in high school, I'd say probably my sophomore and junior years, during which I pretty much had only one friend. "But you're so cool?" you're probably thinking. I KNOW. I ...

Photographs of what is considered to be one of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th century are expected to fetch nearly £70,000 when they are sold at auction. Pictures of the Cottingley Fairies were taken ...