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The Best Of Gordon White On THC: Remembering The Dark Prince of Chaos Magic
Fairy Doctors, Cunning Folk, and Ancestral Curses
Historical "fairy doctors" and "cunning folk" were specialists who diagnosed conditions like being "elf struck" or suffering from fairy vengeance. An anecdote from Glamorgan, Wales, describes a farmer who offended a fairy court by bulldozing mounds, leading to a curse that manifested generations later. These stories illustrate a lost holistic understanding of the human role within a "more than human" world and the lingering effects of ancestral spiritual conflicts.