![]() ![]() ![]() The Incarnation marked the elimination of a primary boundary between the shadows and their reality, between the natural and the supernatural filling up the gulf between the ordinary and the extraordinary. Plato introduced the idea of there being two worlds, and they were worlds of contradiction-one of shadows and the other “the land from whence the shadows fall,” as George MacDonald called it. In her thoroughly charming fairy-tale, The Tailor of Gloucester, Beatrix Potter reminds us that the Nativity brought two realities together, and she makes this point by reminding us of the elvish things at work in our world-as commonplace and busy as mice. This is precisely why it also makes sense to find fairies, goblins, and elves as a part of Christmastide’s union of the ordinary and the extraordinary. The richest Christmas traditions concern down-to-earth things which only makes sense as they celebrate the single greatest Down-To-Earth Thing: the Word made Flesh. Christmastime is the homiest holiday: firesides, feasting, family… and fairy folk. ![]()
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