A person who studies, researches, or is an expert in fairies and fairy folklore.
Compound of 'fairy' and the Greek suffix '-ologist' (from 'logos,' meaning word or study). This is a modern formation reflecting 19th-century scholarly interest in folklore and mythology.
Fairyologists became a real scholarly pursuit during the folklore revival of the 1800s, with serious academics documenting Celtic fairy traditions as if conducting zoological fieldwork—treating mythology as natural history!
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