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 In "The Secret of the Parchment" (Lin Carter and Clark Ashton Smith), The voor are tiny degenerate wormlike creatures of great foulness; survivors of a now-fallen civilisation in Hyperborea and on Ultima Thule before the coming of man or even the antehumans. They were finally driven underground but have been known to surface to kidnap fresh victims. The Desolation of Voor in Thule is one of their sites. They dwell in [[Deep Dendo]] (Faerie Land) in their wicked Voorish Domes. [L.Carter (A.Machen)]
-Lovecraft made off-hand references to "the Voorish Sign" in "[[The Dunwich Horror (fiction)]]", where it seems to be a reference to a nameless symbol in chalk mentioned in Machen's "The Red Hand" ("I found that some one had drawn in red chalk a rough outline of a hand—a human hand—upon the wall. But it was the curious position of the fingers that struck me... a hand seen from the back, with the fingers clenched, and the top of the thumb protruded between the first and second fingers, and pointed downwards, as if to something below..."), conflated with the references to "voor" in Machen's "The White People".
+Lovecraft made off-hand references to "[[Voorish Sign (spell)|the Voorish Sign]]" in "[[The Dunwich Horror (fiction)]]", where it seems to be a reference to a nameless symbol in chalk mentioned in Machen's "The Red Hand" ("I found that some one had drawn in red chalk a rough outline of a hand—a human hand—upon the wall. But it was the curious position of the fingers that struck me... a hand seen from the back, with the fingers clenched, and the top of the thumb protruded between the first and second fingers, and pointed downwards, as if to something below..."), conflated with the references to "voor" in Machen's "The White People".
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 ** Strangely shapeless statues carved in white marble and other stone depicting hideous faces, naked satyrs and nymphs, and less describable beings; sometimes the hidden wild places where the Little People dwell are dotted with fields of sacred white stones and statues laid out in surreal geometric patterns aligned to the landscape.
 * Machen associated these beings with "The Great God Pan" - perhaps another name for [[Nyarlathotep]], [[Yog-Sothoth]], or [[Shub-Niggurath]]?

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	** ''[[Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010 film)]]''		** ''[[Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010 film)]]''
	** ''[[The Descent (2005 film)]]''		** ''[[The Descent (2005 film)]]''
		+	* Sourcebook: ''[[Malleus Monstrorum]]''

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 ===Changelings===
 TO DO (Either half-human offspring born from the willing or unwilling intercourse between faeries and humans, or faerie children left in human cradles in place of stolen human children.)
 ===Stick Indians===
-A sort of Native American counterpart to the European fairies, elves, dwarves, goblins, etc., as mischievous nature spirits, so-called "stick Indians" because they live deep in forests ("the sticks").  They are said to communicate in voices like birds or wild animals, or sometimes they'll call a victim's name in a human voice to lure them deeper into the forest into danger, will-o'-wisp style, and much like European fairies, these "stick Indians" are best avoided, ignored, and not spoken of, as attracting their attention is certain to result in misfortune.  Descriptions of these "little people" vary, much like their European counterparts, from small, dwarfish creatures, to large hairy giants (see [[Sasquatch]]), to beings that look more or less like peculiar or uncannyt Native American people.
+A sort of Native American counterpart to the European fairies, elves, dwarves, goblins, etc., as mischievous nature spirits, so-called "stick Indians" because they live deep in forests ("the sticks").  They are said to communicate in voices like birds or wild animals, or sometimes they'll call a victim's name in a human voice to lure them deeper into the forest into danger, will-o'-wisp style, and much like European fairies, these "stick Indians" are best avoided, ignored, and not spoken of, as attracting their attention is certain to result in misfortune.  Descriptions of these "little people" vary, much like their European counterparts, from small, dwarfish creatures, to large hairy giants (see [[Sasquatch]]), to beings that look more or less like peculiar or uncanny Native American people.

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	TO DO (Either half-human offspring born from the willing or unwilling intercourse between faeries and humans, or faerie children left in human cradles in place of stolen human children.)		TO DO (Either half-human offspring born from the willing or unwilling intercourse between faeries and humans, or faerie children left in human cradles in place of stolen human children.)
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		+	===Stick Indians===
		+	A sort of Native American counterpart to the European fairies, elves, dwarves, goblins, etc., as mischievous nature spirits, so-called "stick Indians" because they live deep in forests ("the sticks"). They are said to communicate in voices like birds or wild animals, or sometimes they'll call a victim's name in a human voice to lure them deeper into the forest into danger, will-o'-wisp style, and much like European fairies, these "stick Indians" are best avoided, ignored, and not spoken of, as attracting their attention is certain to result in misfortune. Descriptions of these "little people" vary, much like their European counterparts, from small, dwarfish creatures, to large hairy giants (see [[Sasquatch]]), to beings that look more or less like peculiar or uncannyt Native American people.

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 [[File:Wormsofearth bosch gardenearthlydelights.png|200px|thumb|right|Detail from "Garden of Earthly Delight", H. Bosch]]
-Faeries, also known as "The Little People", "The Fair Folk", "Satyrs" ("Nymphs" or "Sylphs"), "The Good Neighbors", daoine sidhe (shee), Aos Sí, Tylwydd Têg, and any of a variety of mischievous or malevolent trolls, goblins, gnomes, elves, dwarfs, imps, elves, dwarfs, leprechauns, demons, nymphs and satyrs, and spirits of folklore.
+Faeries, also known as "The Little People", "The Fair Folk", "Satyrs" ("Nymphs" or "Sylphs"), "The Good Neighbors", daoine sidhe (shee), Aos Sí, Tylwydd Têg, and any of a variety of mischievous or malevolent trolls, goblins, gnomes, elves, dwarfs, imps, elves, dwarfs, leprechauns, demons, nymphs and satyrs, "stick Indians", and spirits of folklore.
 Origin:  Faeries - part angry ghost, part ghoul or vampire, and part savage goblin or elf - are one of the most ancient and universal creatures from ancient folklore from around the world; the Little People of weird fiction were however more or less codified by writer [[Arthur Machen]].

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	In "The Secret of the Parchment" (Lin Carter and Clark Ashton Smith), The voor are tiny degenerate wormlike creatures of great foulness; survivors of a now-fallen civilisation in Hyperborea and on Ultima Thule before the coming of man or even the antehumans. They were finally driven underground but have been known to surface to kidnap fresh victims. The Desolation of Voor in Thule is one of their sites. They dwell in [[Deep Dendo]] (Faerie Land) in their wicked Voorish Domes. [L.Carter (A.Machen)]		In "The Secret of the Parchment" (Lin Carter and Clark Ashton Smith), The voor are tiny degenerate wormlike creatures of great foulness; survivors of a now-fallen civilisation in Hyperborea and on Ultima Thule before the coming of man or even the antehumans. They were finally driven underground but have been known to surface to kidnap fresh victims. The Desolation of Voor in Thule is one of their sites. They dwell in [[Deep Dendo]] (Faerie Land) in their wicked Voorish Domes. [L.Carter (A.Machen)]

−	Lovecraft made off-hand references to "the Voorish Sign" in "[[The Dunwich Horror]]", where it seems to be a reference to a nameless symbol in chalk mentioned in Machen's "The Red Hand" ("I found that some one had drawn in red chalk a rough outline of a hand—a human hand—upon the wall. But it was the curious position of the fingers that struck me... a hand seen from the back, with the fingers clenched, and the top of the thumb protruded between the first and second fingers, and pointed downwards, as if to something below..."), conflated with the references to "voor" in Machen's "The White People".	+	Lovecraft made off-hand references to "the Voorish Sign" in "[[The Dunwich Horror (fiction)]]", where it seems to be a reference to a nameless symbol in chalk mentioned in Machen's "The Red Hand" ("I found that some one had drawn in red chalk a rough outline of a hand—a human hand—upon the wall. But it was the curious position of the fingers that struck me... a hand seen from the back, with the fingers clenched, and the top of the thumb protruded between the first and second fingers, and pointed downwards, as if to something below..."), conflated with the references to "voor" in Machen's "The White People".

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	Faeries, also known as "The Little People", "The Fair Folk", "Satyrs" ("Nymphs" or "Sylphs"), "The Good Neighbors", daoine sidhe (shee), Aos Sí, Tylwydd Têg, and any of a variety of mischievous or malevolent trolls, goblins, gnomes, elves, dwarfs, imps, elves, dwarfs, leprechauns, demons, nymphs and satyrs, and spirits of folklore.		Faeries, also known as "The Little People", "The Fair Folk", "Satyrs" ("Nymphs" or "Sylphs"), "The Good Neighbors", daoine sidhe (shee), Aos Sí, Tylwydd Têg, and any of a variety of mischievous or malevolent trolls, goblins, gnomes, elves, dwarfs, imps, elves, dwarfs, leprechauns, demons, nymphs and satyrs, and spirits of folklore.

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 Machen's faeries are savage, shadowy, vaguely-seen nocturnal creatures in roughly human form... between 3 and 4 feet tall, with very pale (or very dark) yellowish or olive skin, dark almond-shaped red eyes, black hair, hideous faces, flexible and perhaps translucent shape-shifting bodies reminiscent of worms or snails when crawling or creeping about.
-Faeries, chased to the furthest, loneliest, most isolated corners of the Earth by encroaching human civilization, live underground under remote hills and mountains, and in deep wells and lakes and in deep and isolated woods as satyrs and nymphs, and they may live in a strange, alien, perhaps subterranean faerie land described in "The White People" as "...some great white place where they lived, where the trees and the grass were all white, and there were white hills as high up as the moon, and a cold wind...", "the sky... like a wicked voorish dome in Deep Dendo..." (Arthur Machen, "The White People").
+Faeries, chased to the furthest, loneliest, most isolated corners of the Earth by encroaching human civilization, live underground under remote hills and mountains, and in deep wells and lakes and in deep and isolated woods as satyrs and nymphs, and they may live in a strange, alien, perhaps subterranean faerie land described in "The White People" as "...some great white place where they lived, where the trees and the grass were all white, and there were white hills as high up as the moon, and a cold wind...", "the sky... like a wicked voorish dome in [[Deep Dendo]]..." (Arthur Machen, "The White People").
 Faerie culture has barely evolved beyond Stone Age technology, with evidence of faerie culture existing mainly in the form of rough-hewn monuments, megaliths, dolmen or cromlech tombs, and other such constructions, sometimes marked in carvings and/or chalk with faerie hieroglyphs and runes.  Sometimes tablets and worked stones covered in such runes and hieroglyphs are found by humans, and faeries have also been known to have worked shocking, repulsive, and horrifying images and objects in gold, which may sometimes find its way into human hands.
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 Later writers may sometimes use Machen's vague references to "voor" and "Voorish Domes" as cues to refer to Machen's Faeries as "The Voor".
-Machen in "The White People" refers to voor:  "...Then beyond the woods there were other hills round in a great ring, but I had never seen any of them; it all looked black, and everything had a voor over it. It was all so still and silent, and the sky was heavy and grey and sad, like a wicked voorish dome in Deep Dendo...", "...I saw the terrible voor again on everything, for though the sky was brighter, the ring of wild hills all around was still dark, and the hanging woods looked dark and dreadful, and the strange rocks were as grey as ever...", "the kingdom of Voor, where the light goes when it is put out, and the water goes when the sun takes it away...."  (From the context, Machen seems to be using "voor" to refer to mist, fog, frost, or shadow?)
+Machen in "The White People" refers to voor:  "...Then beyond the woods there were other hills round in a great ring, but I had never seen any of them; it all looked black, and everything had a voor over it. It was all so still and silent, and the sky was heavy and grey and sad, like a wicked voorish dome in [[Deep Dendo]]...", "...I saw the terrible voor again on everything, for though the sky was brighter, the ring of wild hills all around was still dark, and the hanging woods looked dark and dreadful, and the strange rocks were as grey as ever...", "the kingdom of Voor, where the light goes when it is put out, and the water goes when the sun takes it away...."  (From the context, Machen seems to be using "voor" to refer to mist, fog, frost, or shadow?)
-In "The Secret of the Parchment" (Lin Carter and Clark Ashton Smith), The voor are tiny degenerate wormlike creatures of great foulness; survivors of a now-fallen civilisation in Hyperborea and on Ultima Thule before the coming of man or even the antehumans. They were finally driven underground but have been known to surface to kidnap fresh victims. The Desolation of Voor in Thule is one of their sites. They dwell in Deep Dendo (Faerie Land) in their wicked Voorish Domes. [L.Carter (A.Machen)]
+In "The Secret of the Parchment" (Lin Carter and Clark Ashton Smith), The voor are tiny degenerate wormlike creatures of great foulness; survivors of a now-fallen civilisation in Hyperborea and on Ultima Thule before the coming of man or even the antehumans. They were finally driven underground but have been known to surface to kidnap fresh victims. The Desolation of Voor in Thule is one of their sites. They dwell in [[Deep Dendo]] (Faerie Land) in their wicked Voorish Domes. [L.Carter (A.Machen)]
 Lovecraft made off-hand references to "the Voorish Sign" in "[[The Dunwich Horror]]", where it seems to be a reference to a nameless symbol in chalk mentioned in Machen's "The Red Hand" ("I found that some one had drawn in red chalk a rough outline of a hand—a human hand—upon the wall. But it was the curious position of the fingers that struck me... a hand seen from the back, with the fingers clenched, and the top of the thumb protruded between the first and second fingers, and pointed downwards, as if to something below..."), conflated with the references to "voor" in Machen's "The White People".
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 ===Faerie Land (Deep Dendo)===
-Arthur Machen's Little People appear to live in a strange, alien, perhaps subterranean faerie land, "Deep Dendo"(?), described in "The White People" as "...some great white place where they lived, where the trees and the grass were all white, and there were white hills as high up as the moon, and a cold wind...", "the sky... like a wicked voorish dome in Deep Dendo..." (Arthur Machen, "The White People").
+Arthur Machen's Little People appear to live in a strange, alien, perhaps subterranean faerie land, "[[Deep Dendo]]"(?), described in "The White People" as "...some great white place where they lived, where the trees and the grass were all white, and there were white hills as high up as the moon, and a cold wind...", "the sky... like a wicked voorish dome in [[Deep Dendo]]..." (Arthur Machen, "The White People").
 Much of the mythology about the faerie worlds these beings live in suggest that they normally exist in a parallel dimension (see the [[Other Side]]) and cross over into our world at times and places of uncertainty (liminality), when the veil between worlds is thin: cemeteries (places between life and death), dawn and twilight (times that are neither night or day), equinoxes (times where neither day nor night are dominant), frontiers and wildernesses (places that are neither completely unknown nor completely civilized), and so on.  A journey into the shadowy faerie lands seems a bit like a journey into a nightmare version of the Dreamlands or through some kind of portal into some alien world.