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The term fairy was on occasion applied uniquely to explicit enchanted creatures with human appearance, gifted with mysterious powers, and a propensity for duplicity. At different times it has been utilized to depict any otherworldly creatures, like trolls and elves. It has also been used as an adjective, with a meaning equivalent to "enchanted" or "magical". It is also used as a name for the place these beings come from, the land of Fairy.
The belief in fairies seems to reach back into ancient times, being traceable both in written and oral tradition. Traces stem from the Sanskrit gandharva (semidivine celestial musicians) to the nymphs of the Greeks and Homer, the jinni of Arabic mythology, and other folk characters of the Samoans, Arctic, and other indigenous Americans.
All the more by and large, it concerns most creatures of the folklore of every country in the world that are linked to nature and that were venerated (now and again as genius loci) faithfully before monotheism expansion destroyed local and agnostic beliefs. Fairies are common in literature from the Middle Ages on and appear in the writings of the Italians Matteo Boiardo and Ludovico Ariosto, the English poet Edmund Spenser, the Frenchman Charles Perrault, and the Dane Hans Christian Andersen, among others. Fairy lore is particularly prevalent in Ireland, Cornwall, Wales, and Scotland. Asia, Americas and Africa have their own fairies, sometimes similar to the Little People.
CHARLES MAC CARTHY was, in the year 1749, the only surviving son of a very numerous family. His father died when he was little more than twenty, leaving him the Mac Carthy estate, not much encumbered, considering that it was an Irish one. Charles was gay, handsome, unfettered either by poverty, a father, or guardians, … Read more
THE PIPER AND THE PUCA. DOUGLAS HYDE Translated literally from the Irish of the Leabhar Sgeulaigheachta. In the old times, there was a half fool living in Dunmore, in the county Galway, and although he was excessively fond of music, he was unable to learn more than one tune, and that was the “Black Rogue.” … Read more
The Faery Tradition (referred to also as Vicia, Feri, or Anderson Feri) is an initiatory tradition of modern traditional witchcraft. It is an ecstatic, rather than a fertility, tradition stemming from the experience of Cora and Victor Anderson. Among the distinguishing features of the Faery tradition is the use of a Faery Power which characterizes … Read more
The early centuries of the Middle Ages, when the legends were in making, give all the impression of a dream. Among rustic populations, deeply submissive to the Church and of a gentle spirit (the legends themselves attest this), we would gladly assume a high degree of innocence. Surely it must have been God’s own time, … Read more
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget;For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet.There is many a fat farmer that drinks less cheerfully,There is many a free French peasant who is richer and sadder than we.There are no folk in the whole world so helpless or … Read more
There once lived in a village in Sweden, a farmer, his wife and their little child. One market – day, they set out as usual for the nearby town, with their child, their carriage piled high with their farm-produce. On the way, a wild-hare ran across the road, suddenly, startling the horse, which reared, tilting … Read more
The Dwarfs, or little Hill– or Earth-men [a] of Switzerland, are described as of a lively, joyous disposition, fond of strolling through the valleys, and viewing and partaking in the labours of agriculture. Kind and generous, they are represented as driving home stray lambs, and leaving brush-wood and berries in the way of poor children. … Read more
The Fairy-lore of the North of France, at least of Normandy, is, as was to be expected, similar to that of the other portions of the Gotho-German race. We meet it in the fées or fairies, and the lutins or gobelins, which answer to the Kobolds, Nisses, and such like of those nations. The West … Read more