Celtic mythology and faeries

Alright ... I know this opens me up to loads of "fairy" jokes and jabbs but here goes. Yesterday (Sat Dec 1st) I took an all-day course through the University of Edinburgh Continuing Education department ... it was a course on art-history and specifically Fairies/Faeries in Victorian Art. I have read a fair amount of celtic mythology (both before moving to Scotland and some since) and thought that it would be interesting. It was cool taking a lecture workshop on art history and various themes presented were thought-provoking in terms of 19th century Britain and escapism, the malicious or benevolent presentations of them, and even a tie-in with what Harriet has been studying.

At the workshop, I learned about the rather gruesome story of Michael Cleary who in the 1800's was convinced his wife was abducted by fairies and replaced with an imposter ... he ended up killing her and there were various criminal and political implications which took much of Britain by storm at the time. Well, Harriet about a month ago told me about Capgras delusion which is a rare syndrome associated with brain injury where people either don't recognize faces or are convinced that someone else is an imposter ... a interesting tie-in between the two subjects.