Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-09-07 | Page 6 | 'Do You Believe in Fairies?' Scientist Thinks y Were Vanished Pygmies

Do You Believe in Fairies Scientist Thinks They W Were re V Vanished ani hed Pygmies in en Ry Pr's YORK England Sept 7 There 7 There are reasons for believing that the fairies of folklore were an actual race of men perhaps driven out by the influx influx in in- flux of modern man the British Association Association As As- for the Advancement of Science was told today It Is quite possible said Rev Canon J. J A. A MacCulloch that the stories of fairies are based on facts and date back to sorrel some long lost race of at pygmies pygmies mies or neolithic men who lost in inthe inthe inthe the struggle for survival with the ancestors ancestors an of man as he is today The traditional conception of fairies and gnomes bears a close resemblance resemblance re re- re semblance to pygmies as as' as they are known today Fairies also may have been thought of as ghosts of an m ea ealier ear earlier lier tier race They are often connected with burial mounds and there are parallels in folklore between fairies aides ghosts Habits of fairies as depicted depleted in fairy tales and habits of primitive men are often similar he pointed out Fairies are often depicted as disliking the high civilization of humans humans hu hu- hu mans dwelling underground using stone weapons in preference to iron There nr are arc legends of migrations in connection with dwarfs and fairies that may be based on migrations of ancient t. t man Early pygmy races cannot be the sole foundation of a belief in fairies however Canon MacCulloch said The fairy folklore has been embellished embellished embel with many supernatural beliefs and fairies finally became beings with witha a combination of human and imaginary imaginary nary traits Ancient men In Britain Britain who may mayor or may not have been the basis of ot the the fairy tale folklore date back to glacial times said Professor P. P G G. H. H Boswell It is now definitely known he explained that man was as characteristic characteristic charac charac- a n mammal of glacial and interglacial interglacial interglacial inter- inter glacial times as the mammoth and straight tusked elephant i