At the beginning of the 21st Century monsters still roam the remote, and sometimes not so remote, corners of our planet. It is our job to search for them. The Centre for Fortean Zoology [CFZ] is - we believe - the largest professional, scientific and full-time organisation in the world dedicated to cryptozoology - the study of unknown animals. Since 1992 the CFZ has carried out an unparalleled programme of research and investigation all over the world. Since 2009 we have been running the increasingly popular CFZ Blog Network, and although there has been an American branch of the CFZ for over ten years now, it is only now that it has a dedicated blog.
FAIRY STEEDS
In my book The Fairy Realm I take a brief look at diminutive fairies who ride diminutive horses, citing a few sightings. However, there is a kind of legend that fairies go galloping about, not on horses, but on corgis. To back this up, there is supposed to be a faint marking of a saddle on a corgi's back.
The Fairy Investigation Society (Newsletter 12) has looked into the matter. This belief does not seem to have its origin in early folklore, though the idea seems quite widespread. The earliest suggestion that Fairies ride on corgis seems to come from literature in the form of a poem called Corgi Fantasy by Anne J. Biddlecombe. It was published in 1946. It would seem to be lore from literature. I am sure it is not the first time that something literary has edged its way into folklore.
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