Scared to death by fairies

[Felix the Cat]

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2098843.html?menu=

Four people buried 450 years ago had been scared to death - by fairies.

According to the burial register for the parish of Lamplugh in Cumbria between 1656 to 1663 seven people were also 'bewitched'.

And one was led to a pond to drown by a will o' the wisp - a ghostly light.

Archivist Anne Rowe said: "I've never come across anything like this.

"These were insecure social times and many folk in the 17th century would have been scared of fairies and will o' the wisps with many a natural death being put down to the evil witchcraft of a harmless old widow."

The manuscript was found in Whitehaven during a national local history campaign.

Ms Rowe said the document was genuine but might not be "entirely serious."

According to the Sun she added: "I'm not sure whether to attribute this list to our ancestors' superstitions - or sense of humour!"

[Blood Crystal]

450 years ago people were really scared of these supernatural entities. We can't really see them today because our modern lifestyle prevents us from being aware of all the dimensions. The ancients in pre-christian times were NOT afraid of them but lived with them. The church tended to demonise these entities but also there have been unpleasent ones.

[Björn]

I find it hard to believe that people would be THAT superstitious. Not only that but faeries may cause mischief but they are never that harmful (in lore). Probably just superstitious speculation than superstition.

[Arminius]

Why not? As far as these people were concerned, they don't know how they died. Might as well chalk it up to magical beings, that being part of culture and folklore, than saying, "Died, cause unknown." How boring...
Historically, cultures do seem to put a fun spin on the unknown. Magic, in itself, was seen as something to be feared, whether or not the fairies themselves were traditionally bad or not.

I prefer such stories on elves and dwarves... now those I believe in. :)

[ivory bill]

They were likely poisoned.

I'd like to know if there is more information available. For instance, did all four die at the same time and place? And what condition were the bodies in? I infer that there were no visible wounds. That their faces showed fright/horror is suggested.

[Arrow Cross]

Great excuse for a murder I say. And in that time, people actually believed it.
A Hungarian king in the XIIth Century allegedly died because "the throne collapsed under him". :D

[Björn]

Great excuse for a murder I say. And in that time, people actually believed it.
A Hungarian king in the XIIth Century allegedly died because "the throne collapsed under him". :D

Agreed with this and previous post.

[Zrinski]

A Hungarian king in the XIIth Century allegedly died because "the throne collapsed under him". :D

Which one? I am interested because a Hungarian king would mean he was also a Croatian king and I never heard of this.

Btw. these superstitions might only be an attempt of explanation of what these people saw. Many people try to think of a rational explanation when they didn't understood something. Who knows what it was.

[ivory bill]

Agreed with this and previous post.

They may have all eaten the same poisonous mushrooms. We will never know.

[Arrow Cross]

Which one? I am interested because a Hungarian king would mean he was also a Croatian king and I never heard of this.
Sorry, I was mistaken: 1063 (XI. Century). It was Béla I, and Croatia was not the part of the Hungarian Kingdom yet.

[Zrinski]

Sorry, I was mistaken: 1063 (XI. Century). It was Béla I, and Croatia was not the part of the Hungarian Kingdom yet.

Indeed, no matter that was an interesting piece of information. :)

[TruthSeeker]

Fairies and UFOs?

- By Ken Korczak

The most popular belief today is that UFOs are spaceships piloted by aliens from outer space.

But another good theory which never gets as much press is that which says UFOs may, in fact, be right here from earth.

Instead of being Extraterrestrials, UFO aliens might be Ultraterrestrials -- a species that has always been here, which evolved on earth along with homo sapiens, but which represents a species far superior.

These Ultraterrestrials are so superior to us it's almost impossible for us to comprehend their existence. All we know of them are fleeting glimpses of lights in the sky, occasional bizarre encounters between human beings and so-called aliens, and other unexplained phenomenon.

Think of how a group of monkeys in the wild perceive human beings. Because their own level of consciousness is so limited, they cannot comprehend that we humans are beyond being just another kind of animal. They may see a jet or a helicopter or a car, but to the monkeys, nothing in their consciousness can explain these amazing things.

A monkey may think of an airplane as some kind of magical giant bird. They relate to it with the level of understanding they have about their environment. The speculation of the monkey, at best, is a crude idea about the total truth of an airplane, and the fact it represents entire levels of consciousness that are so advanced, they are literally invisible to monkey mind.

Now think of a human being who encounters a UFO. To us a UFO seems to be some kind of flying, mechanical aircraft -- but the true nature of the UFO may be as different from a spacecraft as a bird is from an airplane. Like the monkey, we just don't have the advanced levels of consciousness we need to comprehend the true nature of a UFO.

As humans, we make the naturally egotistical assumption that we are the species at the top of the heap -- we see ourselves as the peak of achievement of evolution. We even make the bold claim that God, the supreme architect of the entire universe, created us in his own image!

But it's not a big leap to consider that we are just another link in a vast chain of species, many which are below us, and some which may be above us.

People who support the Ultraterrestrial theory point out that supernatural beings seemingly superior to humans have been reported throughout history. In previous eras they were called gods, angels, ogres, fairies, brownies, little people, demons, and more.

The Bible is filled with references to supernatural creatures, including giants, "wheels" flying in the sky out of which incredible creatures emerge, and more.

But references to flying disks were recorded centuries before the texts of the Bible. Cave drawings dating to 30,000 B.C. depict numerous drawings of disks floating around in the sky, remarkably similar to modern UFO photographs.

Some maverick UFO investigators have pointed out the amazing similarities of modern UFO aliens to that of elves, fairies and the various "little people" famous in the folklore of many cultures.

Fairies are well known for kidnapping people, the same irritating habit UFO aliens have. People who are abducted report incidents of missing time, a phenomenon very similar to time lapses reported by people taken to and returned from "fairyland".

Fairies, like modern aliens, tend to be diminutive creatures with large magical eyes. Many reports of alien abduction even include "power rods" used to paralyze abductees, just as fairies wield "magic wands".

One of the most interesting comparisons between aliens and fairies is that both are interested in stealing babies. One of the most common fairy activities is swiping babies from cribs, and sometimes replacing them with a false double, or "changeling" as they are sometimes called.

A large part of modern UFO literature involves aliens abducting women, impregnating them, and later abducting them again, only to remove and take the unborn baby right out of the womb.

Clearly, both UFO occupants and fairies have a strong affinity for the baby stealing business.

Fairies are closely associated with nature, just as modern aliens also display a certain obsession with environmental issues. One of the most common alien abduction scenarios involves aliens who force people to watch "movies" depicting massive environmental degradation caused by modern human civilization. The aliens then give them a lecture on environmental issues and let them go.

If aliens truly are a superior species from earth and evolved on earth, it would make sense that they would be concerned about another species wrecking the planet.

But then you might ask, why don't the Ultraterrestrials simply step in and "manage" us the same way humans "manage" wildlife, including chimps and other large primates? The Ultraterrestrial theorists answer: "They are!". That's what all the abduction and experiments are about!

Just as human beings capture and tag various species, UFO abductees report experiences of extreme similarity. Many people report being "tagged" during frightening sessions on a UFO operating table. Some of these "tags" have even been recovered, or show up on MRI exams, and remain unexplained.

It's also possible that Ultraterrestrials comprehend and operate within higher levels of dimension than we experience at the human level. A monkey could never understand that time and space are actually two parts of the same dimension, as scientists have discovered.

Mathematicians tell us that many additional dimensions of reality exist — dimensions which only the most brilliant math minds can glimpse through numbers, although they cannot experience them psychologically in any meaningful way.

If Ultraterrestrials can exist "above" or "beyond" spacetime, that means they can easily see us, trick us and manipulate our existence, while we can't see them at all, or only in the most crude manner, or perhaps only when they allow us to see them.

Imagine when a bear is shot with a drugged dart from a helicopter hovering above him. Imagine how terrified the bear is of the bizarre flying monster and the noise and lights that come out of it. Now imagine that the bear thinks of the strange beings that come out of the flying monster. The strange beings poke and prod him, look inside his mouth, apply a tag to his ear, and then let him go. Why?

How can a bear understand or interpret the meaning of this incident on its level of consciousness? It can't. It just seem to make any sense. Human beings are so advanced and superior as to incomprehensible.

Is it so difficult to believe that the ongoing bizarre and seemingly incomprehensible phenomenon of UFOs and their activities are the actions of an earth-born species far advanced and superior to human beings?

Just ask a bear or a monkey.

http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/UFOs/ufofairies.htm

[delete]

FMPOV it looks like som euphemism for suicide.

It could be some nice decent priest that wrote this so that the 'suicide victims' could have a christian burial. It could even be corruption or some naive priest who believed the families when they came with the body and claimed it as the cause of death.