[ There's a hint of a smile on Strange's face as Alucard admits his intrigue. Honestly, the magician is perfectly happy yammering on about fairies and magic and the Raven King until the cows come home. ]

I suspect everything diverges around the time of the Raven King's arrival. England had magicians before then—Merlin, Joseph of Aramathea, legends of that nature. And there have always been legends of children or young people being stolen away into the realms of Faerie. But it was only with John Uskglass that everything became...more standardized, as it were.