Etching History: A Prehistoric Artistry

Etching History: A Prehistoric Artistry

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  • Prompt: Machen was very taken with these theories. For him the Turanians are the prehistoric inhabitants of the country, cave dwellers who have retreated before the advance of modern humans. They feature in a number of his stories, such as the Red Hand (1895), in which a murder is committed with a flint blade and ancient hieroglyphs are found near the victim. The elusiveness of the prehistoric peoples explains the myth of invisible fairies; their activities explain many ‘fairy phenomena’ such as flint arrow ‘elf-bolts,’ the changeling belief and the idea of witches’ sabbats. Thus in the Novel of the Black Seal an inscription on the seal in the unknown characters of the ‘Little People’ is half seriously suggested to be in language of ‘the Tylwyth Teg’ and the physical traces of their culture and activities are taken to be ‘fairy.’
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