Josh Cutchin
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Yeah.
So Vallée had already made a lot of pointed comparisons to older European spirit belief in general, fairy belief more specifically in Passport to Magonia.
It's like a foundational text for everything that I've done.
And one of the things that you look at when you look at a lot of fairy folklore, and again, we know this mostly from Western Europe, but I can provide examples from pretty much every inhabited continent, is that if you go into fairyland and you are given something to eat or drink, you've got to refuse it because you're going to be stuck there.
At the time, I didn't know that this was a more pervasive myth.
You'll find it in Oceania regarding the dead, the land of the dead, similarly in South America.
But whenever you're in that other space, you don't eat and don't drink.
And so if Valet's comparisons between fairies and UFOs holds true, then do we see this sort of food taboo from fairy folklore manifesting itself in the UFO context?
And you kind of do.
the point that I tried to make in that first book was that a lot of these encounters are relatively brief.
Like, you know, you're being very hospitable with a nice spread out there, but, uh,
I'm not sure that that would have been necessary for an abduction or for a contactee two- or three-hour meeting, but food and drink did get exchanged in these stories.
They get exchanged in alien abduction accounts as well.
What kind of food?
Well, let me sort of put a pin in this other thought.
They get exchanged in the abduction stuff as well, but they've also kind of changed, right?
We're talking about how the phenomenon changes and how it adapts.
I think an argument could be made that injections and ointments and pills and things that feature all across abductions are sort of a variation on that.
I hadn't thought of that.
The sorts of food and drink that get exchanged roughly correspond to the character...
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