8:53am PDT - May 9th, 2022

This is John Webster in 1677 quoting John Baptist Van Helmont describing carcasses of 'fairies' brought back from the Canary Islands. They were, in all, likelihood, 'Jenny Hanivers' (dead rays modified and contorted into humanoid shapes, to scare the living daylights out of you) https://t.co/9N7Viv5Inv

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