~*FAIRYS, ELVES, PIXIES*~

Fairys - also spelled faerie or faery a mythical being of folklore

and romance usually having magic powers and dwelling on earth in

close relationship with humans. It can appear as a dwarf creature

typically having green clothes and hair, living underground or in

stone heaps, and characteristically exercising magic powers to

benevolent ends; as a diminutive sprite commonly in the shape of a

delicate, beautiful, ageless winged woman dressed in diaphanous

white clothing, inhabiting fairyland, but making usually

well-intentioned intervention in personal human affairs; or as

a tiny, mischievous, and protective creature generally associated

with a household hearth.

While the term fairy goes back only to the Middle Ages in Europe,

analogues to these beings in varying forms appear in both written

and oral literature, from the Sanskrit gandharva (semidivine

celestial musicians) to the nymphs of Greek mythology and Homer,

the jinni of Arabic mythology, and similar folk characters of

the Samoans, of the Arctic peoples, and of other indigenous

Americans. The common modern depiction of fairies in children's

stories represents a bowdlerization of what was once a serious

and even sinister folkloric tradition. The fairies of the past

were feared as dangerous and powerful beings who were sometimes

friendly to humans but could also be cruel or mischievous.

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Elves - They're the Scandinavian version of faeries, complete with

two classes, light and dark, like the Seelie and Unseelie. The

Danish elves are beautiful from the front, but hollow when seen

from behind. The Danish elves also like stealing dough other human

foods. In Scotland, elves were faeries of human size. England

called trooping faeries elves, especially small faerie boys.

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Pixies - Green faeries who often take the form of hedgehogs.

They are also known as urchins, pisgies, piskies, and pigseys.

They originated in Cornwall. They like to dance in the shadows

of stones. Their bells are often heard on the moor. They like

to steal horses and torture them to get them to run faster.

They delight in throwing pots and pans at kitchen girls.

They usually mean no harm, however. Beware of doing pixies

favors, for they have a tendency to backfire.

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