Phill from GCHQ - page 98 - Tylwyth Teg

Tylwyth Teg - The fair folk - Page 98 of the cartoon about Phill from GCHQ - a free comic that I have been working on since September 2016.

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Introduction to this weeks page

The fair people or the fair folk are old names for fairies. Gwen is using the Welsh name, Tylwyth Teg, which means the same, "fair family". The fairies are a folklore belief that came to Britain via the French who have similar creatures. There should also be fairies or similar creatures in central European and the west Slavic countries, so they might just be of Celtic origin (the German Wikipedia says so...). Here in Scandinavia we do not have any fairies. Elves, Huldre, Trolls, but no fairies.

The way we think of fairies these days are very much influenced by the authors of the medieval Arthur legends and later of Shakespeare's, A Midsummer Night's Dream, where large part of the cast is playing fairies. Later that led to a fairy-craze in Victorian times where the strange genre of fairy painting emerged, depicting characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Here's an example of an Victorian fairy painting: The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania by Joseph Noel Paton.

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