airy ... magical and mysterious ... hovering outside your windowsill, fluttering in your
flowerbed or dancing among the trees in the moonlight? Do these thoughts of faeries
carry you away to a place of timeless beauty and childlike enchantment?
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| Have you ever dreamed of faeries? Or perhaps caught a glimpse of one ... beautiful, light, airy ... magical and mysterious ... hovering outside your windowsill, fluttering in your flowerbed or dancing among the trees in the moonlight? Do these thoughts of faeries carry you away to a place of timeless beauty and childlike enchantment? |
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| Fairies are usually conceived as being characteristically beautiful or handsome and as having lives corresponding to those of human beings, though longer. They have no souls and at death simply perish. They often carry off children, leaving changeling substitutes, and they also carry off adults to fairyland, which resembles pre-Christian abodes of the dead. People transported to fairyland cannot return if they eat or drink there. Fairy and human lovers may marry, though only with restrictions whose violation ends the marriage and, often, the life of the human. Some female fairies are deadly to human lovers. Fairies are said to be of human size or smaller, down to a height of 3 inches (7.5 cm) or less. Female fairies may tell fortunes, particularly prophesying at births and foretelling deaths. Several herbs, especially St.-John's-wort and yarrow, are potent against fairies, and hawthorn trees, foxglove, and groundsel are so dear to them that abuse of these plants may bring retribution. | ||||||||||||||