Fairy Law

January 29th, 2010

I read* an interesting little snippet recently – apparently the English King Henry III (1216 – 1272) passed a law decreeing the death penalty for anyone caught “kyllynge, wowndynge, or mamynge” a fairy.
I have no idea if this has ever been repealed, but given the over-bloated nature of the English legal system, perhaps not!

* In Nigel Cawthorne’s ‘The Strange Laws of Old England‘.