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Although at first this thread sounds like it should be in ASB:

The Armenian Genocide said:
Some 19th century archaeologists thought they had found underground rooms in the Orkney islands resembling the Elfland in Childe Rowland.[33] In popular folklore, flint arrowheads from the Stone Age were attributed to the fairies as "elf-shot".[34] The fairies fear of iron was attributed to the invaders having iron weapons, whereas the inhabitants had only flint and were therefore easily defeated in physical battle. Their green clothing and underground homes were credited to their need to hide and camouflage themselves from hostile humans, and their use of magic a necessary skill for combating those with superior weaponry.[4] In Victorian beliefs of evolution, cannibalism among "ogres" was attributed to memories of more savage races, still practicing it alongside "superior" races that had abandoned it.[35] Selkies, described in fairy tales as shapeshifting seal people, were attributed to memories of skin-clad "primitive" people traveling in kayaks.[4] African pygmies were put forth as an example of a race that had previously existed over larger stretches of territory, but come to be scarce and semi-mythical with the passage of time and prominence of other tribes and races.[36]

If these "elves, ogres, and selkies" existed, do you think there is a possibility they could have survived longer as seperate ethnic groups, even as long as today. Although not in secret, of course. The Basques were able to hold assimilation by Indo-Europeans for millenia, why not these other peoples?
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