Yes and yes.
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IANAI, but I suspect that it’s taken semi-seriously as a proxy for hard-to-articulate conservation concerns.
I mean, it’s easy to define a wildlife preserve, or limits for phosphates in groundwater, but what if there’s, say, a bend in a country road where a certain rock and a couple of trees make a spot that people have just always found really special? You can’t pin down its value precisely enough to write a law about it, but if you say a spirit lives there, and people are clear about what you mean by that, then you can usefully legislate to protect spirit houses.
In other words, the supernatural can sometimes be a code or shorthand for things that are real, but cannot be efficiently communicated in scientific or bureaucratic terms. So, yeah, I think it’s tongue-in-cheek but also quite serious.
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I would like to take this opportunity to bring some well-deserved attention to a recently published book titled “Please YoursELF – Sex with the Icelandic Invisibles”
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great analysis. thanks
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