Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey
Like them, he is interested
in human children and attracted by strong human emotions.
From early times people have associated the faerie folk with a certain sadness,
perhaps because they lack some things that human beings take for granted. Accord
ing to one theory, they are unable to conceive their own young and are therefore
fascinated by human children, sometimes kidnapping them in the night, as Shake
speare's faerie queen Titania snatched an Indian princeling as her darling toy in A
Midsummer Night's Dream. Sometimes the faeries steal children from their cradles and
replace them with blocks of wood or soul-less replica children called changelings.
T h e faeries' ability to feel emotions may be different from ours, for they seem
to be curious about our emotional outbursts, and are in fact attracted to them. It's
as if they exist in a parallel dimension but are summoned into our world by strong
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