Introduction

Psychologists call it the uncanny valley, this emotional response we all have to things that are supposed to look human but don't entirely sell the part. The global little peoples stories are just one clear example in the search for some one else to blame for our own very human failings. Cultures have invented smaller humans to use as scapegoats. And it hilits a sort of invisible line, one drawn between the truly human and the almost a line that separates our lived experiences from the unexplainable.