A shrieking outside your window. A fluttering at the corner of your eye. In this year’s Halloween episode, The Two Humans investigate the frightening history of FAIRIES.

Episode 82: For Fear of Little Men: Fairies, Pixies, and Other Assorted Wee Folk

An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans

Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.

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2025   The Fairies. Scottish Poetry Library (website), www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem / fairies/, accessed October 19, 2025.

Briggs, K. M.

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Christiansen, Reidar Th.

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Chua, Eu Jin

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Daimler, Morgan

2024   The Victorians, the Theosophists and the Cottingley Fairies: The Reshaping of Modern Fairy Belief. The Cottingley Fairy Photographs: New Approaches to Fairies, Fakes and Folklore (ed. Simon Young). Pwca Books and Pamphlets, Coppell, TX., pp. 182-195.

Dearnley, Elizabeth

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Dickson, Meri

2024   Fairy Fraud: The Socio-Cultural Impact of the Cottingley Fairy Photographs. The Cottingley Fairy Photographs: New Approaches to Fairies, Fakes and Folklore (ed. Simon Young). Pwca Books and Pamphlets, Coppell, TX., pp. 251-266.

Doyle, Arthur Conan

1922   The Coming of the Fairies: The Cottingley Incident. Hodder & Stoughton, London, UK.

Eberly, Susan Schoon

1988   Fairies and the Folklore of Disability: Changelings, Hybrids and the Solitary Fairy. Folklore, 1988, Vol. 99, No. 1 (1988), pp. 58-77.

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Jenkins, Richard

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Kay, Karen

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Kelly, Dan

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Silver, Carole

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