Who, or what, are the fey? Some say they are evil spirits who fell from heaven during a great battle with Michael and the other angels. Some say they are gods and goddesses. Some say they nature spirits or even that they are extra terrestrials. Many scoff and say they don't exist, but, lots think there's something or someone very strange out there, that we humans are not alone, that there are ancient portals between their world and our's, portals that are more open at certain times of the year...
Various people throughout history have claimed to see faeries. It's call The Sight and is very, very, very rare. Folklore says that the fey often kidnap and take to Faerie Lands those who have the sight because they don't like having their activities publicized among humans. Too, handsome young men and beautiful young women are especially vulnerable to being abducted.
There are good and bad faeries. The good faeries are called the Seelie Court. The bad faeries are called the Unseelie Court. There are air, water, earth and fire fey, --- comprising the four elements. (Air fey, - like sylphs, water fey, - merpeoples, earth fey, - gnomes, etc., fire fey, - salamanders, --- for instance).
Faeries like lovers, poets, children (They are often drawn by the laughter of very young children playing outdoors.) and fools, those who are innocent and pure of heart, the kind and the generous, those who will give freely without expecting anything back. They detest misers, sluggards, noisy people and the cruel.
Faeries are easily offended and take their revenge in extremely creative ways. Country folks in olden times have called them The Good People, The Gentle Ones, The Little People, but fey are not really gentle, or always little. (In fact, they're basically capricious and wildly unpredictable.) Some are very, very wicked and have huge, monstrous forms. But, then, maybe, the fey take forms only as a whim, and only because humans expect it. They may really be entirely incorporeal.
Faerie lore is all over the world, in Europe, especially in the Celtic lands, --- Ireland and on the Isle Of Man, the Orient and even Native American tribes have legends of faeries. Folk lore has recorded these olden beliefs. I find them intruiging.
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