FAIRIES, FOLKLORE AND FORTEANA

SIMON YOUNG FILES A NEW REPORT FROM THE INTERFACE OF STRANGE PHENOMENA AND FOLK BELIEF

THE BOGGLE FACTOR Many FT readers will be familiar with the Boggle Factor, the moment in a fortean account when you cease to believe. Your average UFO researcher will be happy, say, to hear about an interdimensional spacecraft landing in your garden. But he will become anxious if the aliens, according to your account, dance a Highland jig on the lawn afterwards, announcing that you are the new messiah. Everyone has different boggle thresholds, of course, depending on the matter in hand. Personally, I am fascinated by telepathy in dreams. I, likewise, get a kick out of fairies in the hill or ogres under the bridge and I love poltergeists. But I cannot stand the notion of precognitive dreams. The idea of visits from dead loved ones (aka ghosts) offends,…

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