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bollocks but also notable. I've been researching the realms of faerie for a few years (for a book series), but have never heard this term in serious use. There is actually a brief entry on
Wiktionary on it, which could do with a source adding, if anyone feels energetic. As to belief in fairies, I remember talking to some tinker children who would say 'I done it' (but not if being accused...), 'he done it' (more common), and 'her done it'. They wouldn't say 'she'. Why? They were from Ireland, and the word 'sidh' is pronounced the same as 'she'. And you don't talk about
236:. I could be shown to be wrong about that, but that's my impression.In any event, unless someone wants to create an article from scratch, the current one would need to be edited down to the stub "Fairyology is the study of fairies", which is rather tautological even for a stub, which leads to McGeddon's remarks on "ghostology" or "pumpkinology".
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I would prefer to say that fairies have not been yet proven to exist - and not proven NOT to exist either... Anyway, they're as provable or otherwise as most (if not all) of the gods, demons and other whathaveyou across the globe. Not to mention horoscopes and homeopathic 'medicine', which are both
201:- the claimed "earliest use found in Ainsworth's Magazine" is just an opera review that describes a song as a "piece of metrical fairyology". Modern news sources only seem to use the term with flippancy, giving the term no greater weight than "ghostologist" or "pumpkinologist" or anything.
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as utter bollocks. Fairies don't exist, and neither does this "field of study". Otherwise, someone would have won James Randi's
Million Dollar Challenge by now. I had previously proposed deletion of the article, but the article creator removed it.
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the thing it means, which is what an encyclopedia article does. I agree with McGeddon that there is no evidence that this is even an established word in any serious sense, or that what it connotes is an established field. A Google search for
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