A Child's Eye View of The Faery Faith
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The Faery Faith has been practiced by Christians and Pagans alike for hundreds of years, as documented by anthropologists including W. Y. Evans Wentz. In this book, you can discover the Folk of the Otherworld who have long been loved and feared by the people of Ireland and the other Celtic Nations. Learn to identify the various types of The Wee Folk (some of whom are bigger than you are!) and learn how to interact safely with them. Whole Otherworlds await you inside these pages...remember your manners, and remember to show gratitude without ever saying the words "Thank You." Oh, and when you give gifts to your new Otherwordly friends...don't give them clothes. Find out why in here.
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A Child's Eye View of The Faery Faith - Morgan Daimler
Child’s Eye View of the Fairy Faith
By Morgan Daimler
Spero Publishing
Madison, WI
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Copyright 2012 Spero Publishing
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This book is dedicated to my father, Terence Henninger, for raising me to believe and to my children, Amara and Paige, for believing
Table of contents
CHAPTER 1: THE BASICS
Other Names for Fairies
Common Names:
Other Names:
Vocabulary
What is the Fairy Faith?
Where Do Fairies Come From?
What Do Fairies Look Like?
Good Fairies and Bad Faeries
People and Fairies
CHAPTER 2: PRACTICE
Good Manners
Fairy Gifts
Seeing Faeries
Categories of Fairies
Honoring the Fairies
Offerings for Fairies
What Can Faeries Do?
Fairy Protections
Special Fairy Days
Fairy Places
Fairy Land
Fairy Prayers
Fairy Colors
Fairy Host
Fairy Animals
Fairy Plants
CHAPTER 3: ACTIVITIES
What should You do?
Amara’s Questions About Fairies
What Do Other People Do?
CHAPTER 4: STORIES
A Story About A Brownie…
A Story of Fairy Gifts…
Returning What’s Lost
A Story of the Good Neighbors
CHAPTER 5: A SELECTION OF COMMON FAERIES
Pixies
Brownies
The Aos Sidhe
The Roane
A Norse view: Gnomes
Worldwide faeries: Mermaids
Oriental faeries: Kitsune
Mine Faeries
Fairy Horses
CONCLUSION: FINAL THOUGHTS
Chapter 1: The Basics
Other Names for Fairies
Many people think it is bad luck to call fairies by their names because this might attract their attention or be considered disrespectful. It might just offend them, which is never a good idea. So instead of talking out loud about fairies or particular kinds of fairies, people use other names like the Gentry or the Good People. Many of these names, like Mother’s Blessing,
are nice names to make the fairies happy and show that the person respects them. In this book we will call them fairies or the fairy people, but when you talk about them it is good to use the other names.
Common Names:
Fairies: this can be spelled any way, like faeries, fairies, faerys
Fairy people
Fey
Other Names:
Little People
Mother’s Blessing
People of Peace
Shining Ones
The Fair Folk
The Gentry
The Good People
The Nobility
The Other Crowd
Wee Folk
Some people also use names for the fairies that come from other languages, especially Celtic languages like Welsh and Irish. In Irish you will see the word "Sí or
Sidhe used, it sounds just like the English word
she" and means fairy hill. All of these names can be used for any type of fairy (and for all types at once), and are often especially used for the Aos Sidhe.
An Slua Sí (un Sloo-uh shee): the fairy host, also called the Sluagh
Aos Sí (Ace shee): People of the fairy hills
Cú Sidhe (Coo Shee): Fairy dogs
Daoine Sidhe (THEE-nuh shee): People of the fairy hills
Síog (SHEE-uhg): fairy
Síogaí (SHEE-uhg-ee): elf, fairy
Tylwyth Teg (Tall-wit Tayg): literally, the Fair Folk,
Welsh name for the fairies
Vocabulary
Celtic (KEL-tik): a group of related cultures in Europe that have related languages and beliefs
Clootie tree (CLOO-tee tree): a tree that has had pieces of cloth or ribbon tied to it
Elf-locks: tangles in the hair of people or horses that appear overnight, thought to be caused by fairies
Elf-shot: invisible fairy arrows that make a person sick or cause sudden pain
Fairy: a general term for any being that is not from this world and is not an angel or a demon
Fairy doctor: a human who has a special relationship with the fairies and also knows how to handle fairy protections and break fairy enchantments
Fairy Faith: the beliefs and practices of people who believe in the fairies
Fairy Hill: a special hill or mound, called a Sí or Sidhe (both pronounced SHE) in Irish, where fairies live. Also called a Fairy Fort, Fairy Mound, or simply a Mound.
Fairy Land: also called the Otherworld, Elfhame, Elfhome, Faery, and Elfland; the place where fairies live, a world that is connected to our world but different from it
Fairy Rade: a group of fairies riding together in our world
Fairy Ring: a circle of mushrooms or dark grass that marks a spot where fairies dance
Fairy Road: a path or route that fairies are believed to travel along, especially at night. Often invisible to the human eye.
Glamour: magical illusion that can make one thing look like something else
Offering: something that is given; in the Fairy Faith, this refers to something given to the fairies
Otherworld: also called Fairy Land, the place where the fairies live; a world that is connected to our world but different from it
Pixie-led: Being enchanted by Pixies so that you lose your way, even in