Cool fantasy worldbuilding idea for someone to steal:
Magic is like electromagnetic radiation. The reason iron is anathema to the fey is because ferrous metals conduct magical energy too well. Iron doesn’t “block” fey magic - it sends it haywire, like sticking a magnet next to a compass.
Copper conducts magic so well that copper jewelry is banned in some localities because people automatically assume anything made out of it is enchanted. All the great enchanted swords of the ancient heroes? Bronze.
The thing that actually blocks magical energies and stops a fey in their tracks? Lead. Heavy elements like lead block magic the same way they block atomic radiation - the molecules are just too dense for any energized particles to make it through. Lead and mercury exposure will both kill one of the fey. Of course, they can also kill just about anything else as well.
That’s why gold is so prized - it’s the one non-poisonous substance that magic can’t touch. Gold coins are preferred because everyone knows they can’t possibly have an enchantment or curse on them. “Fairy gold?” It’s probably iron pyrite or a very shiny bronze alloy.
when i got home after the new years celebrations last night, i took off my boots and found this pin stuck in the bottom of one of them,, a good sign for the new year perhaps ? :-)
Stone cooking supports used to grill skewers of meat by Minoans on Santorini, circa 3600 years old. The line of holes in the base supplied coals with oxygen. Many consider modern "souvlaki" street kebabs a direct descendant of this portable food system. Museum of Prehistoric Thera, Greece. More: https://thetravelbible.com/museum-of-artifacts/