“The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton” was published as part of Dickens’s series The Pickwick Papers and written seven years before A Christmas Carol.
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A delicate being with gossamer wings. Is this what you imagine when you think of fairies? Well if so, you may be in for a shock. Varla Ventura, the author of “Fairies, Pookas, and Changelings” suggests something else. She claims: “The kingdom of the Fairy is one of vengeance, thievery, trickery and wild creatures who wish nothing more than to steal your child, drown you in the bog, or spoil your best Sunday shoes. The woods are lonely, dark, and deep. You have been warned.”
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During my visit to Animas Forks, the evening light had inched down Treasure Mountain and stretched across the grey, weathered wood of the abandoned buildings. Most tourists already on their way back to town, so all had been quiet. Only the occasional trill from a nearby marmot. And a breeze, whirling playfully through grass and wildflowers…with the ever so slight murmuring of laughter.
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