FAIRIES, FOLKLORE AND FORTEANA

SIMON YOUNG FILES A NEW REPORT FROM THE INTERFACE OF STRANGE PHENOMENA AND FOLK BELIEF

CHRISTMAS ENCOUNTERS Parents be warned. No child under 10 should read what follows… My sermon today concerns someone whom you have been seeing quite a lot of recently. I refer to Old Man Christmas who – like Isis – goes by many names: Saint Nick, Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Papa Noel… Askyourself, how often did you glimpse his diabolical face in windows and on decorations the last time you walked into town? North Koreans see fewer pictures of Kim Jong Un strolling through Pyongyang. Then there are also, during his December tyranny, doubles in shopping malls and church halls handing out ‘gifts’ and terrifying toddlers. “Come and sit on my knee, little boy…” I’ve been collecting, for a few years, the fortean accounts of adults who remember, when young, seeing…

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