faeries sabbie chaos faeries red wine faeries barbed wire faeries electrical wire faeries dust faeries empty coke can faeries breaking velvet couch faeries towering altar_to_technology faeries super8 faeries smokey theatre faeries frumbled clothing faeries forgotten music cd faeries discarded buisness card faeries mysterious boxes faeries busted gadget faeries old folio faeries aprononic faeries telecommunication faeries [a awards speech of some of the faeries in my life. dispair not, ye who were not mentioned here. tommorrow, as always, i shall discover yet more of you] 020408 ... Photophobe Glowing Charrisa was a faerie. They were legends in their own time: Bringing joy and love and sugar and spice to all. But, as suchthings inevitably are, it was all a facade. Charrissa tried to leave the faeries. She didn't want to be a powerpuff girl any longer. So she was ejected. Lost. Bereft of all her friends in the world. So we took her in. We were the un-named group. There were plenty; The Greasers, the mountain men, the russians, the smileys, the Korean 'dogs', the "wall group", the aftershave patrol... And then us. We didn't even care to shake our zipper blues. So we befriended the faerie without her wings. But faeries can't survive without them. Everyone knows that. Charissa died mysteriously less than 6 months later. We went to the funeral, and there wasn't a sparkle in sight. _____________________________________ 4 years pass. There are no little groups in real life. School is a distant glow. _____________________________________ Saturday I ran into Amy. Pilling off my dial at sublime, we met 2 girls who knew my mate from somewhere. So we went and sat with their friends, and I met Franny, and chatted to the only person in their little group also pilling. HE mentioned mary this, mary that, mary's just over there. "Hey mary, come meet Blake". Amy comes over, sits down next to me, and looks right at me and says. "Hi I'm Amy, the faerie." In my MDMA-ridden state, through the haze of love and the blur of completeness, I nearly spat in her face. "We've met, we said." "... you're Charrissa's friend. She was a nice girl. I'm sorry." And with that perfectly timed little bit of faerie-dust, my hate was gone. And its still gone; it wasn't the drugs. So how do I place my loyalties. Charissa fell from grace. Charissa died, and they didn't come for her. But Amy says she's sorry for MY loss. She acknowleges the fact that it was never her loss at all. I guess I'll be going to Amy's party next week. I'm sorry Charissa. But you would have forgiven by now. 020408 ... misstree Phant and Nightchylde taught me how to dance on Jackson Square. Without them, I would never have believed that New Orleans could have a moment of honesty, of laughter that wasn't raucous, of sunshine. When Phant did her Beltane ritual on the square, a rainbow showed up as if invited, and stayed just long enough for the ritual. I love her in a way that neither friend nor lover could ever touch. I love that she exists. 020408 ... blown cherry Hmm, I'm pretty self-centred, aren't I? You never posted the rest of those lyrics, and time after time you would say how she was the first person you'd felt anything for in such a long time. And I always felt the misery of "So where does that leave me?" It left me with all the evidence I needed to bury myself further in the fact that you really felt not a thing for me. Even with the confused phonecall and you gushing to tell me how you didn't think you really wanted to be going out with this girl afterall, you'd still say solemnly that she was the only person you'd had any feelings for. I'm still not sure where this leaves me. Well, maybe I do know where I am in relation to you now (mostly), maybe I'm just hoping to see the past in a different light. 020804 ... Eowithien Faeries are there whether you believe it or not they watch us in our mortal ways with our "advancements" in "technology" they laugh at us they don't need all that shit faeries exist are like angels to some curses to others and all around good beings 030219 ... sabbie Eowithien, if you believe that all faeries are good you havent been watching carefully enough 030219 ... Eowithien do you really think that I do? I don't even know who I am so I am not going to jump to any conclusions that I have already made. They may not be all good, it depends on what my mood is for what I think. 030220 ... sabbie yes. i really think that you do. come now, you jumped to that conclusion in your last blathe. read back over what you've written, then try to tell me that you didnt jsut say that all faeries are good. if you're going to protest your innocennce, its kinda hard when you're doing it right underneath all evidence to the contrary. 030221 ... Eowithien hence why i said curses to others. interpret it how you like. 030228 ... soul on fire skanky_faeries 030228 ... u24 whenever one of us goes out to do something, and the other is still in bed when they get back, it's always the same excuse. I got up!, but the faeries flew me back to bed. 041211 ... patience always messing with my day the little trixies! 050315 ... just listening They always seemed like total bitches to me. 050601 ... not tonya ...wear boots, yeah, you've gotta believe me 050601 ... Lemon_Soda Goblins fuck with me more than faeries. Faeries just bite and flit along their way...WE'RE the ones being stared at, like animals in a zoo...a zoo we built. How wonderful. 050602 ... Kasen For other uses, see Fairy (disambiguation). “Fay” redirects here. For other uses, see Fay (disambiguation). A fairy (fey or fae; collectively wee folk, good folk, people of peace and other euphemisms)[1] is a spirit or supernatural being, based on the fae of medieval Western European (Old French) folklore and romance, often identified with related beings of other mythologies, see list of beings referred to as fairies. Even in folkore that uses the term "fairy", there are many definitions of what constitutes a fairy. Sometimes the term is used to describe any magical creature, including goblins or gnomes, and at other times only to describe a specific type of more ethereal creature.[2] Fairies are generally described as humanoid in appearance and as having magical powers. Their origins are less clear in the folklore, being variously the dead, or some form of angels, or a species completely independent of humans or angels.[3] Folklorists have suggested that their actual origin lies in a conquered race living in hiding,[4] or in religious beliefs that lost currency with the advent of Christianity.[5] These explanations are not always mutually incompatible, and their origin may come from multiple sources. Much of the folklore about fairies revolves about protection from their malice, by such means as cold iron or charms of rowan and herbs, or avoiding offense by shunning locations known to be theirs.[6] In particular, folklore describes how to prevent the fairies from stealing babies and substituting changelings, and abducting older people as well.[7] Many folktales are told of fairies, and they appear as characters in stories from medieval tales of chivalry, to Victorian fairy tales, and up to the present day in modern literature. Contents [hide] 1 Nature 2 Etymology 3 Origin of fairies 3.1 Folk beliefs 3.2 Sources of beliefs 4 Fairies in literature and legend 4.1 Practical beliefs and protection 4.1.1 Changelings 4.1.2 Classifications 4.2 Legends 4.3 Literature 5 Fairies in art 6 Fairies in modern culture and film 7 See also 8 References 9 Bibliography 10 External links [edit] Nature Fairies are generally portrayed as humanoid in appearance and as having supernatural abilities such as the ability to fly, cast spells and to influence or foresee the future.[8] Although in modern culture they are often depicted as young, sometimes winged, females of small stature, they originally were depicted much differently: tall, radiant, angelic beings or short, wizened trolls being some of the commonly mentioned. Diminutive fairies of one kind or another have been recorded for centuries, but occur alongside the human-sized beings; these have been depicted as ranging in size from very tiny up to the size of a human child.[9] Even with these small fairies, however, their small size may be magically assumed rather than constant.[10] Wings, while common in Victorian artwork of fairies, are very rare in the folklore; even very small fairies flew with magic, sometimes flying on ragwort stems or the backs of birds.[11] Various animals have also been described as fairies. Sometimes this is the result of shapeshifting on part of the fairy, as in the case of the selkie (seal people); others, like the kelpie and various black dogs, appear to stay more constant in form.[12] [edit] Etymology The word fay came to English from Old French fae, and originated in the Vulgar Latin feminine fata, referring to the Fates, personifications of destiny (the Greek Moirae), e.g. Fata Morgana or Morgan le Fay. English fairy was loaned in ca. 1300 from Old French faerie "land of the fae, enchantment", an abstract noun of fae (fae-ry as in e.g. yoeman vs. yoemanry). From adjectival use ("fairy gold", "fairy queen" etc.) from the 15th century applied to the class of supernatural beings inhabiting faerie, re-interpreted as derived from fair, singular fairy with a new plural fairies. The term fairy tale is a translation of the Conte de feés of Madame d'Aulnoy (1698). The spelling faerie first appears 1590 in Spenser's Faerie Queene. From Spenser's use, the spelling with -ae- came to be used in a dignified or poetic sense as opposed to "vulgar" tales. J. R. R. Tolkien makes use of the distinction, in On Fairy-Stories defining Faerie as "the realm or state in which fairies have their being", depicted as a mystical or visionary state in his Smith of Wootton Major. [edit] Origin of fairies [edit] Folk beliefs People who believed in the existence of fairies often did not always ascribe to them a definite origin,[3] and explanations varied culturally, regionally and temporally. One popular belief was that they were the dead, or some subclass of the dead.[13] The banshee, with an Irish or Gaelic name that means simply, "fairy woman", is sometimes described as a ghost or as a harbinger of death.[14] The Cauld Lad of Hylton, though described as a murdered boy, is also described as a household sprite, like a brownie.[15] One tale recounted a man caught by the fairies, who found that whenever he looked steadily at one, the fairy was a dead neighbor of his.[16] This was among the most common views expressed by those who believed in fairies, although many of the informants would express the view with some doubts.[17] Another view held that they were an intelligent species, distinct from humans and angels.[18] In alchemy, in particular, they were regarded as elementals, such as gnomes and sylphs, as described by Paracelsus.[19] This is uncommon in folklore, but accounts describing the fairies as creatures of the air have been found popularly.[20] A third belief held that they were a class of "demoted" angels.[21] One popular story held that when the angels revolted, God ordered the gates shut; those still in heaven remained angels, those in hell became devils, and those caught in between became fairies.[22] Others held that they had been thrown out of heaven, not being good enough, but were not evil enough for hell.[23] This may explain the tradition that they had to pay a "teind" or tithe to Hell; as fallen angels, though not quite devils, they are subject to the Devil.[24] A fourth belief was the fairies were devils, entirely.[25] This belief became much more popular with the growth of Puritanism.[26] The hobgoblin, once a friendly household spirit, became a wicked goblin.[27] Dealing with fairies was in some cases considered a form of witchcraft and punished as such in this era.[28] Disassociating himself from such evils may be why Oberon, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, carefully observed that neither he nor his court feared the church bells.[29] The belief in their angelic nature was less common than that they were the dead, but still found popularity, especially in Theosophist circles.[30][31] Informants who described their nature sometimes held aspects of both the third and the fourth view, or observed that the matter was disputed.[30] A less-common belief was that the fairies were actually humans; one folktale recounts how a woman had hidden some of her children from God, and then looked for them in vain, because they had become the hidden people, the fairies. This is parallel to a more developed tale, of the origin of the Scandinavian huldra.[30] [edit] Sources of beliefs One theory for the source of fairy beliefs was that a race of diminutive people had once lived in the Celtic nations and British Isles, but been driven into hiding by invading humans. They came to be seen as another race, or possibly spirits, and were believed to live in an Otherworld that was variously described as existing underground, in hidden hills (many of which were ancient burial mounds), or across the Western Sea.[4] Some archaeologists attributed Elfland to small dwellings or underground chambers where diminutive people might have once lived.[32] In popular folklore, flint arrowheads from the Stone Age were attributed to the fairies as "elf-shot".[33] 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.[34] 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