Yazata
Valued Senior Member
What about all the accounts of people seeing pixies firsthand? There are some very famous cases.
In Iceland, belief in elves (huldufolk, 'hidden people') is still widespread. Belief in elves is one of the more famous characteristics of Icelanders, in fact. A 1975 survey showed that 28% believed that huldufolk are 'impossible' or 'unlikely', 33% 'possible', and 22% 'likely' or 'certain' (with 17% 'no opinion').
Iceland has an otherworldly landscape to begin with, and its 300,000 people are descended from Viking settlers who arrive in pagan times before 1000 CE. Folklore has a way of surviving and perpetuating itself in a place like that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huldufólk
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