That tweaked theme tune should tell you that Cooper and Cary are having words with friend of the show, Reformed Mythologist, Nate Morgan Locke about fairies. Literal fairies. Or Faeries if you're trying to look clever. Do they exist? Could they? And why do they keep popping up in popular culture all over the world, across thousands of years?

The book that kicked off the discussion, Robert Kirk's "The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies. US Amazon / UK Amazon

Listen to Cary and Morgan lock talk about Dragons on Popcorn Parenting.

Here's that Not Just the Tudors podcast about Christmas Ghost Stories.

Watch the first half of the conversation on YouTube.

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