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Deal or No Deal?

Why stories about the fae folk always involve dangerous bargains

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Nikki Auberkett
Mar 12, 2026
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Original artwork by Arthur Rackham (1923); used via public domain rights.

A young woman is sold by her boastful father to their king for her supposed magical gift of being able to spin straw into gold. Of course she can’t actually do that, so in her quiet despair she is approached by a mystical being who offers to help her in exchange for increasingly va…

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