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Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? the ancient greeks believed, so did the old egyptians, and the hindoos, and the red indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?
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Again, If There Are Really No Fairies,

Andrew Lang
Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? the ancient greeks believed, so did the old egyptians, and the hindoos, and the red indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?
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