Fascinating parallels between beliefs in 'antifa' always needing to be 'bussed in' from somewhere else (never your own ever so normal settlement!) & the faerie folk living in an Otherworld just beyond mortal sight
Leave a saucer of milk out for the antifa folk lest they bewitch your cattle, blight your corn and tear down your racist statues
Seriously, this belief in a mischief-making troupe that you will always be told is from some Other Place - nobody's clear on exactly where, they just know it's not here - really does have folkloric precedents
Case in point https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/1271683112066523136?s=19
They come from the moors and marshes, do the fey folk, so you've got to watch for 'em
they did take our goodly Winston and left a changeling all of grey boards in his place!
Further to the same point. Remember how faeries and itinerant performers are both deemed 'shadows' by Shakespeare? https://twitter.com/TPM/status/1271577840023199745?s=19
'nay nay goodman calm thyself for this is no faerie band, tis but a troupe of tumblers and mummers'

'dang it sarge this ain't no antifa this is just a bus full of hippie jugglers'
Neolithic flint arrowheads were once taken to be serious evidence of faeries. Compare this to the way satirical articles and joke credit cards are seriously taken as evidence for 'antifa'.
We shall mask the changeling with an effigy of goodly Winston that he might straightways be returned unto us https://twitter.com/MediocreDave/status/1271808980063522820?s=19
Further reading (thread) https://twitter.com/Joannechocolat/status/1271745734489014272?s=19
If you think you have caught an antifa but it proves to be a mere mortal, why, that just proves how tricksy and cunning the antifa are https://twitter.com/iucounu/status/1286301917279387648?s=19
up at 3 am searching my entire house by candlelight for the pesky antifa who keep stealing my socks, finding nothing, going to bed concluding that I must have scared them off. 'they'll be stealing some other bugger's socks now' I chuckle knowingly
I am wearing one of those long nightcaps in this scenario
they do betwitch the creatures of the woods and fields to their will! https://twitter.com/LAGilman/status/1280635195322818560?s=09
the king of all antifa is said to ride upon a weasel attended by a great cloud of bees

for his lieutenant he hath a weaponized mole
so I was thinking 'if only there were some equivalent of the superstitious belief that spiteful faeries can turn the milk sour'

I'd completely forgotten the superstitious belief that spiteful antifa were turning milk into cement
milkmaid, in tears: the FAIRIES have turned the good MILK into CUUURRRRDS

NYPD, in tears: the ANTIFA have turned the good ICE CREAM into CONCREEEETE https://twitter.com/andrewkimmel/status/1270179032038961152
I will continue to update this thread for as long as the parallels keep cropping up https://twitter.com/eats_master/status/1305966266289537024?s=19
Please note that exactly as with the faeries, it is the *small* woodland creatures that are believed to be under the antifa sway

Ask yourselves why people don't anticipate a trained antifa attack moose, for example
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