Faeries

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 09:04 PM 2/26/99 -0500, Joe Iglesias wrote:
>On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, John Sullivan wrote:
>> > Ben Brighoff writes...
>> > > How 'bout this:  Faeries are the spirits of babies killed because they
>> > were
>> > > unwanted.  
>> What this still doesn't address though is the objection from somebody 
>> (I forget who but if might have been Greg or John) that any attempt 
>> to make faeries out of killed/aborted what have you children means 
>> there should be many more faeries now than at any time in the past, 
>> which is counterintuitive.
>
>It was Greg.
>
>And frankly, considering that the game baldly says "there are no
>zombies, vampires, or UFOs as such", I don't find it too outrageous to
>suggest that most old "faerie tales" were just tales after all.

Now here's the question: can we find a bizarre but natural explanation for
Faeries, a la vampires?

-G.
1899 Phrenologist: Your son has the sloping forehead of a sexual deviant:
better put him in an asylum.
1999 Gene Therapist: Your fetus has the "date rape" gene.  Better abort.