inhabited<\/em>?<\/p>\nIt is something that I accept in theory. And I have had some interesting dreams about the hidden folk\/fairies\/”UFO people” (all the same thing, probably) who live inside the house walls or in invisible houses.<\/p>\n
So maybe I need a hidden-folk consultant, like the woman at the start of the documentary, who can walk around each boulder and give a nei<\/em> or j\u00e1 <\/em>as appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My little patch of the southern Colorado foothills may not be great agricultural land, but it does (or because it does) have boulders. Big ones. Ever since I posted about the Icelandic hulduf\u00f3lk (hidden folk) documentary, I have been scrutinizing them. Is this one . . . um . . . inhabited? 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