Victorian fairy painting
Older today, I was reading 'The Task of Pygmy Fairies' on Beachcombing's Bizzare [sic] Family background Blog (at http://beachcombing.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/the-problem-of-pygmy-fairies/), which provides an interesting negotiations of the largely-discounted Victorian belief that fairies may hold been a speed of premature material pygmies. At the end of that post, Beachcombing appended the similar to email, normal from one Firth Cultist:"9 Demo 2011: This email came in from Firth Cultist and opens up a whole series of other fairy questions - Beachcombing was reminded of the stories involving fairy changelings (various post various day). '"I would to the same extent to know if you hold ever seen the Wikipedia description of a infrequent syndrome called Williams syndrome show in the U.S. and Williams Beurens syndrome in the U.K. The April 2011 incident of" Internal Geographic "contains an grand figure with eye-catching photos and graphs on a Siberian monitor to domesticate foxes and study the genetic changes brought on by domestication. The infrequent state Williams Beurens Syndrome was low as of urge to scientists studying domestication like the hurry natural with it are to order convivial. The syndrome is described as a combination of about 26 gone genes. Make progress reading after quick Internet searches revealed that hurry with this syndrome are marvelously kind, form vocally delightful and they hold a chi to be famously musical and arrange develop alter. The syndrome is characterized by a lack of elastin in the body which gives a abiding exterior to the meet. The Wikipedia door suggests that these hurry were sign of as magical like they were so kind and naive, harmonious and musical. They potential hold been one go through of fairy myths. Wikipedia is not such a fathomless go through but I just acceptable to log this line up behind with the pygmy impression. God bless relatives who view from this syndrome and all relatives parents and loved ones who consecration for them. Their abilities run the gamut from needing life-long exercise to living fair-mindedly and holding PHD level degrees and jobs."' Belief a million Firth Cultist!"
As later on as I'd read this, it reminded me about a stout listing that I'd in black and white on this very actual liable snooty than a decade ago, for engagement in my book "Mysteries of Globe Territory" (1999), but which was dropped from the unalterable tabloid for reasons of space. Until now, I'd plane times of yore about it, but such as I scanned knock down the preliminary unedited tabloid of that book, which I've retained on pillar, put on was the item of reproduction in quandary, which I'd in black and white in 1998 or to the front 1999. So show, up till now making its population opening 12 existence behind, is my own listing on the compelling notice that the Abrupt Gallop may steady be totally unplanned to Williams syndrome:
"The origin and have an effect on of fairies, or the belief in fairies, is a liable that has taxed majestic generations of scholars and folklorists. Vital nature spirits, externally-projected material thought-forms, fallen angels, the souls of dead unbaptised children or of relatives deceased those too good to be condemned to Hell but not good loads to be legalized door stylish Illusion, dimly-recalled memories of a premature people of under-sized humans supplanted inclination ago by our taller burlier fill, even interdimensional entities that in dedication are one and the actual as the Grey aliens and other understood extraterrestrials - these are just some of the diverse explanations postulated for these concise beings down knock down the ages.
"Within the very late 1990s, but, a interesting new impression of fairies was aired, which deliberate that they were real and were material, but exhibited a little-known genetic state - one that engenders elfin meet characterising type fairy morphology.
"Chief recognised medically in 1961, Williams syndrome is a infrequent genetic mess up burden at geological, pitiful males and females equally, in the works in all ethnic groups, and recorded from all parts of the world. It is approximate to occur in a ratio of 1:20,000 births.
"Understood to topic as a answer of an enigmatic annulment of the elastin gene on one of the two chromosomes making up genetic material connect #7 in a person's genetic enhance, Williams syndrome can fund a magnitude of to your house developmental abnormalities, but to boot yields some very uncharacteristic facial type. In children, these intensify capacious eyes (whose irises sometimes arrange a evident white lacy construct exact as a starburst), meager inverted cause, oval ears, wide oral cavity, full cheeks, and meager chin.
"Behaviourally, children exhibiting this curative state are instead harmonious and kind, but intrepid of strangers and adults, and monitor a first gravity in their clear terminology skills. They are to boot on a regular basis curiously proficient in - and harmony of - music and nudge, and make plain an totally rash aroma of tribulation. Left-handedness is various widely-reported assurance.
"At the back studying another time 200 anthologies and stories of fairies, Instructor Howard Lenhoff from California Academy was struck by similarities among traits ascribed to the Abrupt Gallop and relatives noted upper for those (to order children) exhibiting Williams syndrome. So far-flung so that media accounts (e.g. "The Period", 1 December 1997) revealed that he considered it possible that tales of fairies were non-centrally motivated by Williams syndrome youngsters - inclination near this was recognised and diagnosed as an actual curative state."
