More heavily researched material from Wikipedia.
One popular belief was that they were the dead, or some subclass of the dead. One tale recounted a man caught by the fairies, who found that whenever he looked steadily at one, the fairy was a dead neighbor of his.[17] This was among the most common views expressed by those who believed in fairies, although many of the informants would express the view with some doubts.[18]
Fairies as zombies, as the living dead, that's got traction, as they say in literary circles. I like the idea of them having a dark disturbing connection to the dead.
I'm going to keep collecting any little nuggets of ideas like this, let them swim around in my brain for a while and then repeat the conversation exercise, this time centred around the first conversation Emily has with the fairy she meets.
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