Iām not convinced by this, actually!
Like, this analysis treats it as a substanceĀ problem, i.e.Ā āedible matter from fairyland has properties that, if ingested, physically prevent you from being able to return to the real world.ā
But OTOH, a recurring theme throughout fairy stories is that theyāre all aboutā¦rules and exchanges and agreements with really steep interest rates:
āIāll do you this favor, but if you donāt guess my name youāll have to give me your first-born child.ā
āYouāre gonna be real good at everything but when youāre 16 youāre gonna prick your finger and die.ā
āYou loaned me $2 for the bus when I looked like a beggar, so now hereās a literal pile of gold and shit.ā
Not to mention that in Childe Rowland, one of the centralĀ āif you eat food from fairyland youāre stuck thereā stories, Rowland manages to retrieve his siblings despite them all presumably having chowed down on fairy food ā all it took was beating the Fairy King in a swordfight and threatening to chop his head off.
The takeaway, I think, is that the food thing a matter of implicit exchange: if you get your grub on in fairyland, youāre accepting their hospitality and eating food that they own. This means you owe them, which the fairies can magically leverage to prevent you from leaving.
(You can probably get around this by explicitly agreeing to pay for your meal before you sit down to eat. From what I remember, fairies donāt seem capable of pulling a āHaha, we had an agreement but youāre fucked anyways!ā maneuver, so if they agree to let you leave they might even be forced to help you leave.)
Which brings us to the matter at hand: if you blow a fairy youāre doing themĀ a favor! They owe you.
Andā¦theyāre a fairy, so if you didnāt agree to terms beforehand they might not repay you in a way thatās ultimately helpful or safe, but it certainly doesnāt seem like theyād be able to, like, pat you on the head and be likeĀ āThanks, youāre really good at this buuuuuuut also youāre stuck here forever now.ā
Instead, what seems more likely isā¦I dunno, showing up to your wedding years later and giving you a beautiful white horse that always comes when called, while loudly praising you as truly deserving it for giving them them simply theĀ bestĀ oral theyāve had in years.Ā
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