If you love fantasy, it is fun to mew about elves, faeries, imps, gnomes and all those other little mystical creatures that are featured in children's books, poetry and works of art.


~Faerie Clothes and Appearance~
Submitted by Zena

Naturally each faerie dresses according to his or her taste, but there are general styles, fashionable now for thousands of years. Ladies prefer shimmering silver gauze for dining at home, and white shifts when travelling abroad in mortal realms - white shifts against the night blackness being known to produce startling effects on mortal sensibilities.

At home faerie ladies and gentlemen enjoy adorning themselves with the treasures of the earth, especially with diamonds and pearls. Somewhee about their persons lies a fillip of gold, on a cap, perhaps, or a hem of a dress. Sea faeries have an easier access to pearls; but land faeries prefer necklaces made from serpent's scales, which they have had to import from England ever since St. Patrick chased the snakes from Ireland.

Of course, a great deal of red is worn by the faeries as well as displayed in their homes, for red is the color of magic, and a great deal of green, for is that not the color of the fields and the woods and of Ireland herself? Therefore red caps are all the rage in male faerie circles, well-fitting green garments eternally in style. On occasion faeries do sport about in foxglove caps, but mortals have been too quick to cry 'faerie' every time they spy the foxglove and so have falsely attributed diminutive size to the good, but not always so wee, people.


Meraw Meraw,

Mew has saved some links for fairy's and wanted to sent mew what she found, here is a wonderful link :

Fairy Sweet Song

Mew believes in fairys. I clap my paws for Tinkerbell.
Purries, Jewels the Meow Cat.


A faery is a creature that appears in two kinds of folk stories-legends and faery tales. Legends take place in the real world, and faery tales occur in some imaginary land. Legends are told as true stories, while faery tales are told as fiction. Actually, faeries appear in few faery tales. Most stories about faeries are really legends.


Faeries have magic powers which perform both good and bad deeds. They can fly, change shape and make themselves invisible to human beings. Most faeries are usually helpful, but there are several who behave mischievously and occasionally act cruel. We must keep in mind that the faeries are governed by a code of ethics far removed from our own.

We have no idea of the life span of a faery. We believe they are immortal, however, there have been sighting of faery funerals. Throughout history, stories of the same fairy looking and acting the same are told, we can best guess that the faeries life span is at least several hundreds of years.

From Silvermyst and....
Mystify Me



Cat Faeries - Flower Essences
Sent to us by Lilith


Submitted June 21 by Nikita La Femme

I do not have a favorite fairy, and I have never seen one, but I do plan to have a garden that could attract them. I think it would be lovely to have them dancing in my garden!

My garden would include pansies, used as a love potion by Oberon, and are much beloved by fairies. The herb Thyme is another plant which is attractive to fairies, so much so it is considered dangerous to bring it into the house.

Foxglove, a dangerous stimulant, not only provides the sort of dark excitement one would expect of goblins, it is also worn by fairies as gloves or chapeau.

Ragwort and rye-grass, in a pinch, are used by fairies as make- shift horses. ('Horse and Hattock' are the magic words to make these stems fly.)

Perhaps bluebells would help for a place where this flower blooms is a place of fairy-woven enchantment.



Kip - The Enchanted Cat

Submitted by Cheyenne Autumn

Mythology, another type of "fairy tale", created fairies; also known as: pixies, elves, dwarves, trolls, goblins, gnomes, brownies and many others. People believed in them almost universally throughout ancient history, although they only live through stories and books today. Back then, they appeared in several famous works of literature, such as: Odyssey, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Grimm's Fairy Tales, and so on. The idea that magical things were the cause of natural changes (such as the turning of seasons, large harvests or poor harvests, etc.) was very popular. And that's what made them become as famous as we are today. Next time you read a fairy tale, make sure you give those elves some recognition for their hard work.


PIXIES
Submitted by Lady Midnight
In folklore, pixies (or piskies) are little people who believed to live on the downs and moors of Cornwall, England. According to one myth, pixies were originally Druids who resisted Christianity, and the more they resisted the smaller they grew. Yet another myth tells of a race of people who were not good enough for heaven, nor bad enough for hell and were doomed to wander the earth forever.

They love to steal horses and ponies and make nocturnal rides on their backs over the heaths and moors, while entangling the manes of the animals. Even inside houses people are not safe to their tricks, such as throwing small objects at the inhabitants. Although pixies like to play, they are hard workers as well. They work on the fields the entire night for some bread and cheese.



THE CHILD AND THE FAERIES
AUTHOR UNKNOWN

The woods are full of faeries!
The trees are all alive
The river overflows with them
See how they dip and dive!
What funny little fellows!
What dainty little dears!
They dance and leap, and prance and peep,
And utter fairy cheers!
I'd like to tame a faery
To keep it on a shelf,and dress its little self
I'd teach it pretty manner
It always should say "please"
And then you know I'd make it sew
And curtsy with its knees
purrs,
Lilith


Pixies in Wildflowers-Sent to us by Lloyd

Lloyd's Meowmie's Fairy Flowers

Camomile's World

Mary Cecily Barker's Fairys

Mary Cecily Barker Page

The Fairy of the Flowers
A copyrighted site

Faeries and Birding


Submitted by Pal

Faeries don’t like to be seen by humans and will only appear for just a moment, then they disappear, quick as a wink! They come in all shapes and sizes. Frequently, they are very tiny, but they may also be very tall, and some of them can change their shape at will. Faeries can adopt to semihuman form, and they love to meddle in human affairs. Some faeries may use magical powers to capture humans, to steal crops or gold, or to bring bad luck. Some faeries are generous and helpful, bringing gifts or cleaning people's homes. But be very careful--even the gentlest of faeries may become spiteful if provoked. Their powers vary but most are more likely to harm than to help.

In the Middle Ages, when everybody believed in faeries, the Church regarded them as fallen angels cast out by God, that continued to challenge His power. Many religious teachers taught that fairies were demons and devils.



Servo and Jude sent us the following excellent links
Pixie Pit
Smiley St
Fairy Sara

Click for Carolina's Faery Pages
My Faery Garden

Below is a Faery made for us by Servo!


Fey Art of Faeries


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