Boggart and Banshee: A Supernatural Podcast

Pixy-Led? The Truth about Fairy Disorientation!


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Get lost in familiar places? You're not alone! Simon and Chris are bewildered by supernatural disorientation, including cases of people being pixy-led by  Newfoundland fairies and Balkan witches. Discover traditional defenses against non-human misleaders, from carrying bread to wearing clothes inside out (and yes, sometimes even stripping naked!). While our hosts consider scientific explanations - glitches in human compasses, they grapple with bizarre reports of impossible landscapes: gardens without paths, eighty foot hedges, and fields that trap their victims. Plus, one host recounts their own uncanny pixy-led experience in a car. Care to guess who?

Our readings from this month
Janet Bord, Fairies: Real Encounters with Little People

Dermot Mac Manus, The Middle Kingdom  [stray sod]

John Gregorson Campbell, Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland, - Gaistig on the Island of Coll 

Jeremy Harte, Explore Fairy Traditions 

Mirjam Mencej, '‘Something Came Over Him’: Narratives on Being ‘Carried by Witches’ and Their Possible Connection to Altered States of Consciousness', Preternature 7 (2018)

Barbara Rieti, Strange Terrain: The Fairy World in Newfoundland

Chris Woodyard, http://hauntedohiobooks.com/news/the-lost-children/ - disorientation in the woods

S. Young, ‘Pixy-Led in the South West’, Transactions of the Devonshire Association 148 (2016), 311-336  https://www.academia.edu/35045282/Young_Pixy_Led_in_Devon_and_the_South_West

S. Young, ‘Four Neglected Pixy-Led Sources from Devon’, The Devon Historian 85 (2016), 39-49 https://www.academia.edu/33316277/Young_Four_Neglected_Pixy_Led_Sources_from_Devon

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