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BY JACLYN TRUSS Do you believe in fairies? “Human nature seems to abhor a blank space on a map. Where there are no human habitations, no towns, where villages dwindle into farms and farms into woods, mapping stops. Then the imagination rushes to fill the woods with something other than blank darkness: nymphs, satyrs, elves, gnomes, pixies, fairies,” says Diane Purkiss, author of Troublesome Things: A History of Fairies & Fairy Stories. @fairytalesneverdie 163 inspadesmag.com