Hucka D.:
No time for intros. Sharies ruled the land below Herman’s Mansion. Interacted with the humans on the property. Made their way to the house, yes. Carrcass-8 should help. Behind the 8 Ball.
bb:
So Carrcass-8 is going to help me understand the mythology of the Sharies.
Hucka D.:
Yes. Starting with LINDA.
bb:
Did Herman know about them?
[no answer]
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I’ll continue speculating without Hucka D., then. Herman walked past a fairy house on his daily strolls on Eight Ball Ridge, or what he perhaps insisted be called merely “The Eight Ball”. And, yes, Herman and his family played croquet in the backyard there, and maybe were familiar with the game Eight Ball. Don’t see how they couldn’t have been. Those working in the fields around Heart Lake were closer to Sharieland Central, however. To the fairies they were giants. Sharieland may have had a parallel to My Second Lyfe’s Pietmond, a Golden City in the sky. Sharies consider the working Herman estate the Golden Age, now long past. They had a shared fantasy, a Shared Fantasia even. What happened to the Sharies after that, and the coming of The Way? Lisa the V. became involved after that. Sharies might have understood the transmigration of the soul across bodies.
Billfork is involved here. The settlement of TILE Creek paralleled that of the neighboring Heart Lake region up to the formation of Billfork on Fork Creek, and the discovery of the true head of TILE Creek next to Head Rock and not at Hand Spring. Did some Sharie fairies settle in the Billfork area after this Golden Age had ended?
Sharies were comforted by the sight of the mansion up on the hill above their central region. They were always very aware how much of the house you could see from any one location. They knew a young boy could be watching them from an upstairs window.
There were the tame, domesticated Sharies living in and around the mansion (and perhaps in other houses in the park at that time), and then the wild Sharies living in the fields around the house. Specifically Heart Lake would have been a magnet of attraction.
Could the Termite Terror of 1902 actually have been an excuse to capture and/or eradicate Sharies in the mansion? (or in the wild?)
This is a big topic.
Herman was busy running the mansion and grounds and had no time for fairies except for his walks on Eight Ball. This was a linking place. The Sharies confused Herman with the Eight Ball. They set up a specific fairy house, perhaps even a stage house (like a doll house, except reversed?) on this path for Herman and wife to see. Son Eddie saw the Sharies (yes!).
Eight Ball (Hill) originally called Eighth Ball, after the croquet game. Herman was a collage of people — he was a Munster Mash(up).
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