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Tomte and Vรคttar, Swedish farm folklore entities

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For centuries and perhaps millennia, Swedish farmers have shared tales of supernatural creatures inhabiting their farms. Since the nineteenth century, folklorists have begun to study these stories, gathering information on the mysterious entities, traditions and rituals connected to them.

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The kidnappings of the Fairies and the mystery of the "Missing 411"

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Every year dozens of people suddenly disappear in US National Parks, in unexplained situations and without leaving any trace; Detective David Paulides, who for decades has been studying these mysterious cases he defined as "Missing 411", has identified some recurring patterns which, analyzed with an eye to ancient traditions (both European and Native American), bring us back to the folklore beliefs concerning the "water-babies" and other feral entities residing in the "invisible world", to which it is sometimes believed that the human being, willy-nilly, is able to access, sometimes never to return to our world.

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Fairies, witches and goddesses: "subtle nourishment" and "bone renewal"

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An analysis of some beliefs concerning the "subtle nourishment" of witches and fairy beings will lead us to the discovery of a recurring mythology through the millennia, from the archaic times of the shamanic cultures of hunters to the era of inquisitorial processes: that of the so-called "renewal of the bones ".

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The kidnappings of the Fairies: the "changeling" and the "renewal of the lineage"

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Our "Magonia" cycle continues with an analysis of the tales of kidnappings of human beings by the "fairy people", with particular attention to the phenomenon known as "changeling", the kidnappings of babies and nurses, the hypothesis of "Renewal of the feeric lineage" and, finally, a confrontation with the so-called "alien abductions".

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