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  "thread": {
    "id": 3216,
    "subject": "Shapeshifting (was Re: (urth) Shadow Children in the Lupiverse?(attn. Tony Ellis))",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2002-05-05T16:46:01+00:00",
    "last": "2002-05-05T16:46:01+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0205-865@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice K. Turner",
        "address": "aturner6 at nyc.rr.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-05-05T16:46:01+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Shapeshifting (was Re: (urth) Shadow Children in the Lupiverse?(attn. Tony Ellis))",
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          "text": "Without following the argument very closely, let me suggest that with the\nAnnese, GW references the fairy tradition--he is not alone among good sf\nwriters to do so. Faries are flummoxed by \"cold iron\"--i.e.tools. They can\nsometimes shapeshift. And they have been known to interbreed with humans, as\nwell has to kidnap human children. I wouldn't nail it down to \"fairies\" in\nparticular, but to the entire group of supernatural fairylike creatures in\nWestern (and worldwide) legend. The indumi are more specifically akin to\ndevils and the Neighbors to cherubim (even to the multiple limbs and the\nsemi-visibility).\n\nYes, of course there is the Australian \"dreamtime,\" quite specifically. Not\nonly but also. I just checked date for Bruce Chatwin's -Songlines-;\npublished 1987. 5HC is 1972, but there was earlier material for GW (and BC)\nto research.\n\n-alga"
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