Do Fairies Exist?

[Streetcar]

I am not sure if there is a similar topic to this already. But how about Fairies? Who among you saw Fairytale movie? The UK is known to have lots of Fairy tales which was also the original source location of the film Fairytales. These little creatures also amazes me eversince i was a child even till now. Is it part of mythology, fact or fiction?

When i was a child i had a special afinity for those so-called little insects that carry light called "Aninipot". And i used to see them specially when we spend overnite visits near beach areas or baybayon nga naay trees. I used to catch them and put them in a bottle of course they die in there but until now Fireflies amazed me. I have not seen any here in States. Its the most fascinating thing for me that i associate with fairies or at least, i believed they were when i was little.

Do you believe in Fairies?

[usrolla]

for me i think its just a product of one's imagination

[Streetcar]

I dont really think there is too. I'm just amazed by it. Are fairies the same as ingkantada? coz they are portrayed as either bad fairies or good fairies. Who knows.

[usrolla]

i think same ra man cguro ang fairies ug enkantada....but some stories are nice to hear

[MyMaria]

i do believe in fairies...

but mind you, there are good and bad fairies.. the pixies are the ones that cause a ruckus..
ever wonder why you can't find something in the house and you knew for sure you left it at the same spot..
well, maybe they borrowed it! fairies are known to borrow stuffs a lot...

there aren't a lot of fairy sightings in our country, but dwarfs, elves, gnomes, and the like are the same kind..
most of them live in the woods anyway, and since we're in the city, it's highly unlikely we find any of them here.

they do exist, but it's been long gone since they stayed away from mortals.

i have this book... by Lady Cottington...



it's a pressed fairy book.. he personal diary of her interactions with fairies..
the images can be pretty and then gross with some nudity hahaha



fairies are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very very wise...
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Humans have long maintained close daily connections with the faeries. In centuries past, we've acknowledged them by many traditional names: boggarts, bogles, bocans, bugganes, brownies, blue-caps, banshees, miffies, nippers, nickers, knockers, noggles, lobs, hobs, scrags, ouphs, spunks, spurns, hodge-pochers, moon dancers, puckles, thrumpins, mawkins, gally-trots, Melsh Dicks, and myriad others. Just as they have many different names, they appear to us in many different guises. They are shape shifters, highly mutable, for no faery or nature spirit has a fixed body. In their essence, faeries are abstract structures of flowing energy, formed of an astral matter that is so sensitive as to be influenced by emotion and thought. In their most primal form, we perceive them simply as pulsing forces of radiant light, with a glowing center located in the region of the head or heart. (In the more highly evolved faeries, the head and the eyes are more strongly defined.) Responding both to mythic patterns and to human thoughts, these abstract forces delight in coalescing into wings and flowing drapery, taking on shapes that reflect the human, animal, plant, and mineral worlds.

[MyMaria]

here are some snapshots of my book...

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[usrolla]

MyMaria: nice info regarding fairies.....so regarding those bad fairies what are they capable of doing?

[MyMaria]

@usrolla... Fairies bestow the gifts of inspiration, self-healing, and self-transformation...but they also create the mischief in our lives, wild disruptions, times of havoc, mad abandon, and dramatic change....

Did you ever wonder why your socks never match or buttered toast always falls facedown? Did you ever wonder what a Pang of Regret looks like? Or Mild Panic? Here you'll see the faces and darker problems-- the bad faeries who pinch us, nip us, trip us up, and lead us astray. Yet even bad faeries have their gifts to bestow when we understand their contrary natures. By recognizing and naming them, you'll find they can teach you how to spin the straw of your life into gold. ---Excerpt from GOOD FAERIES/BAD FAERIES

Here are some examples:

LEANAN SIDHE

This beguiling creature is the Irish faery mistress, or faery muse, who inspires artists, poets, and musicians. Her enchantments stimulate creativity until it burns with a bright, fierce flame. The sheer intensity of this vision will eventually leave the artist hollow eyed and worn, his gift in ashes. Artists visited by the Leanan Sidhe are said to be touched by genius but often die young.
In other moods she is the Dark Seductress known as Lhiannan Shee on the Isle of Man. She seduces her victim, draws out his spirit, and leaves him as a ruined husk in body and soul. She is the skogsfru of Scandinavia, a forest faery with a fatal touch; and the Bonga Maiden of India, a capricious nature spirit who entices and even marries human men.
She is the beautiful Deer Maiden of the Lakota and other Native American tribes, who lures men into the woods to their doom-- yet also inspires artists (and occasionally drives them mad). But she is perhaps best known as the faery so evocatively portrayed in Keats's poem "La Belle Dame sans Merci": the seductive creature who leaves the knight haggard, alone, and "palely loitering."

THE FOOT FUNGUS FAERY

The wild nocturnal dancing of faeries produces the well-known phenomenon of faery rings: toadstools growing in the circle where their tripping feet have touched the ground. This faery causes athlete's foot (or ringworm), a fungal problem of the skin in ring-shaped patches. It is a fungal faery ring, personalized and in miniature. One book of remedies recommends that we "go artistic" and wear sandals without socks-- in other words, give freedom to our feet; let them be less constricted and more creative. Our feet connect us to the ground and give firm footing to bright ideas and flights of fancy. Sometimes we need to earth our dreams in order to bring them to fruition.

The foot fungus faery, like the mushroom he sits on, has materialized overnight. He is an idea just coming into form. His wings are still damp and crumpled, not yet fully extended. He sits, making the decision whether to sit or stand or fly away-- whichever might be the best foot forward. This faery can slow you down or help you develp a surefooted future. *(I suspect this creature moonlights as the faery sock stealer).

THE FAERY OF DARK DESPAIR

She throws her spell of introspective darkness, and you sink deeper into the shadows of despondency. Her enchantment may last for just a few hours...or for many years. Yet the hue of her wings reminds us that there is always hope in the midst of hopelessness.

THE GLANCONER

In Ireland, he is known as the Glanconer, or Love Talker. His amorous cousins around the world include England's deadly Reynardine, the fox daemons of China and Japan, the lusty elfin knight of Scottish balladry.

The Glanconer's eyes are black as sloes and his words are sweeter than honey. He walks the woods by twilight, prowling for women to charm and kiss. Beware. Dealing with the Love Talker involves a risk-- an elemental risk. It might be an exhilarating experience treasured for the rest of your life--or you might pine away when the faery's gone and no other man's touch can equal his. The Glanconer, like sweet-talking human lover boys, takes you for a walk on the wild side of Faery. It could be the making of you...or lead to pain and depair.

A SLIPPERY FAERY

All faeries are elusive (and illusive) creatures. This faery is particularly slippery, making obects slip out of your fingers and smash against the floor. She haunts kitchens, and glassware shops, and posh ceramics galleries. She also contrives slips of the tongue: when you are under her influence, the wrong word just slips right out of your mouth. Her specialty is the Freudian slip, which reveals too much about yourself.

LILU

Crouching on the edge of reason, just beyond rationality, this faery is the provocateur of restless nights and erotic dreams. She is the one who ensnares us with compulsions, fixations, feverish imaginings. Yet within the dark tangle of images she weaves are the glittering threads of our own healing--for even as she conjures our compulsions she holds out the ability to release their grip, enabling us to confront and let go of all that we no longer need.

[diem]

@MyMaria, just wondering if our own branch of Fairies are similar in traits and culture as to their cousins, the Fairies of the Briton Isles? Or are they basically the same race, no ocean is a border? Could we apply the knowledge of Lady Cottington to our own Fairies?

I do so often wonder why such fairy culture is so strong in places such as England and the Philippines.. you see aside from fairy folklore, The Philippines and British Isles share similarities in geography... these are both island archipelagos shaped like triangles....! 

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Is it just me or is there something going on here...?

[Sanosuke]

I think whether a place is a continent or archipelago, fairies and nature spirits still exist... like in other parts of Europe...