By Dora van Gelder Kunz, Caitlin Matthews
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Angels are not the theme of this book and are discussed only as they are connected with fairies, but I would like to say in general that conventional ideas about them are on the whole pretty far from the fact. Angels are more interesting in themselves, as they really exist and live, than the ordinary beliefs allow them to be. Something of this will appear as we go on. The conventional idea of angels has never appealed to me, for it portrays them as beings with all sorts of virtues but very little character, whereas in reality angels have vivid individualities and are most fascinating.
This heart rhythm is a matter of vital contact with things around him, but his sensations and responses to a stimulus from without works whether or not he is in synchrony of identity with the person or creature. That is, he has something corresponding to our sensory mechanism. He is all sensation, and so he does not get sense impressions exclusively through specific organs of perception like eye or ear, but rather in a general and yet vivid way all over him. He saturates himself in things that give him sensation.
The groups merge into one another, just as in our solid world, some fish can fly a bit, and some land creatures can swim. But it is nevertheless a clear-cut and real division. IES However, there is among them all, one type that most completely characterizes the term fairy. This is the common woods or garden fairy who figures frequently in these pages. He is to be found everywhere, and he varies as much from continent to continent as nationalities vary among human beings. Perhaps the best way to plunge into our subject is to take one of these land fairies and describe him at some length, in the hope that with his aid and in his companionship, we can enter freely and happily in the kingdom of these very real and truly delightful and friendly folk.