Are there fairies and elves down by River?

This week I read Sadie Rittman’s paper The Cosmopolitics of Elves, Fairies, and Other Hidden Beings. My younger and more narrowly rational self would have poo-pooed the suggestion that hidden beings are anything other than a silly fantasy which have no significance to our real experience. But today, I am very taken with the idea; I copied the article to several colleagues; I saw how the ‘reality’…