this is all correct. they're real enough that countless generations have actively modified their behavior because they believed that these things were real enough to interact with, and scary enough that they generally didn't want to. we have countless stories from all over the world as proof that believing in fairies is historically more common than not. real people died for fairytales. countless real lives have been affected in various ways. fairies are a very real influence on us, whether they physically "exist" or not.












