with all due respect ....
Eots, at the beginning of the last century fairies were everywhere, they inhabited the minds and explained the actions of missing objects, of strange events, of things that didn't make sense. Before that it was demons or devils, spirits that caused these strange things to happen. But we live in the modern world and now fairies and spirits have lost their powers to science and reason, so now we attribute the strange events to coteries of others, even when a simpler, more likely explanation is possible. As I was driving home from dinner tonight I asked my wife why she thought so many believe in conspiracies. Her answer was it makes events interesting and exceptional, I can't explain why all those people, if you interpreting them correctly, believe in fairies, but why do you believe?