Interview: David Ellwand: Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!'

From: Scotland on Sunday | Date: November 10, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

AS A chat-up line, it's hard to beat for jaw-dropping impact. "Have you ever," the poet and painter William Blake is reputed to have asked a woman next to him at a 19th-century party, "seen a fairy funeral?" Surprisingly, no. But Blake had. The fairies, he said, were "the size and colour of grey and green grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a rose leaf which they buried with songs and then disappeared." And where had this visionary experience occurred? A wooded glade, crisp underfoot with the bark shed from ancient trees? A perfumed rose garden, dancing with the shadows of evening sun? A ...

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