Welcome to FaerieGuide.com Official Archive of the Scattergood Papers
Recovered, barely restored, and possibly cursed.
Welcome, intrepid reader.
You’ve stumbled — possibly quite literally — upon the only surviving digital archive of the notorious faerie hunter and Victorian eccentric, Millicent Scattergood (1842–1922?).
Long dismissed by her peers as “dangerously imaginative,” “mildly cursed,” and “a walking insurance liability,” Millicent spent nearly seven decades cataloguing the Hidden Folk: those mischievous, malodorous, and occasionally musical creatures that infest the edges of our reality.
In 1974, her scandalous field guide, water-stained, tea-drenched, and inexplicably humming, was discovered in the boot of a mossy Ford Cortina behind a chip shop in Droitwich-under-Haven. This website is the result of years (okay, months) of painstaking restoration, decoding, and mild screaming.
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About Millicent Scattergood
Britain’s Most Misunderstood Naturalist (1842–1922? Possibly Still at Large)
“I don’t find faeries. They find me. Usually while I’m holding toast.”
— Millicent Scattergood, undated field note.
Young Millicent – Circa 1854
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Born into aristocracy and quickly ejected from it, Millicent Winifred Scattergood was a noted faerie hunter and accidental arsonist. From an early age, she exhibited signs of Faerie Perception Syndrome, a rare and highly inconvenient condition that causes one to perceive magical creatures while attending respectable garden parties.
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Educated at St. Dymphna’s Academy for Young Ladies (Almost expelled), The Harrow School for Unusual Botany (readmitted under a fake name), and briefly Oxford’s Department of Zoology (burned down under very suspicious circumstances), Millicent spent her adult life travelling the globe cataloguing the most ill-tempered, illogical, and ill-mannered members of the Hidden Folk.
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Millicent circa 1920
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