“The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.”
Jane Yolen
Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
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