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What are Fairies, Elves, and Pixies?   

Faeries: also Fairy or Faery, have long been the common terms for a legendary race of clever super- natural beings who meddle in human affairs, but they are known by many names. Commonly associated with the Celts, Fairies are not the product of one culture or time; they have a pedigree.

  Ancient Greek Heroes had fairy lemans, called nymphs, and the faraway Asians, Eskimos and American Indians had similar fairy legends as well. The mythic Gandharvas of Sanskrit poetry were also fairies. 

The nearest analogy to the shape of fairy belief in Scotland and Ireland - the Pixies of southern England is that of the popular oral traditions of the early Arabs.  The best books on Celtic Fairy lore are still "The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies" by the Rev. Mr. Kirk and Keightley's "Fairy Mythology".

"Peter Pan"  "The Protector of the Forest" and "Horror of Tinker bell" 

              Amazingly enough, the belief in a species of Lady Fairies, deathly to their human lovers was just as common in far way Samoa as it was on the banks of Loch Awe.  The Fairy women who come to the births of children and foretell their fortunes with their spindles legends were found in ancient Egypt. The fabled trickery and changeling legends are also quite common the world over.         

   Since ancient times, the Irish have referred to fairies as the Shee, ( or Sidhee in Gaelic. ) Other names for fairy and fairy like creatures include the pixie, pixy, elf,  fay, sprite, brownie, Robin Goodfellow, dwarf, gnome, troll, kobold, peri, hobgoblin, leprechaun, and also included are the nymph, dryad, oceanid, hamadryad, naiad, neried, oread, undine, faun, satyr & mermaid. A female spirit who wailed to foretell death was called a Banshee.

Many fairy tales popular today had their origins in the folk tales of prehistoric times...

 A fairy circle unleashed great magical powers. The Greek Sirens of Homer are a form of these Fairies, as the Nereids, Oreads, and Naiads are fairies of wells, mountains, and the sea. 

The evolution of the fairy tale continues to this day.  

"The Little People" or Leprechauns were the another race of elves ( fairies ) from the folklore of the Irish. ( or Luchrupan ). They were master craftsmen and hoarded hidden treasure. Like the fairies, contact with them could either be a blessing or a curse. Over the course of a thousand years, the gods of the Ancient Celts, AKA elves and fairies evolved into what we now call lepruchauns or... the little people.  

Country People still commonly believed in them until the coming of the television in the 1950's...  By the mid 20th Century belief in fairies was thought to have faded into history.  In spite of persecution and the ridicule of modern science these beliefs and practices continue to this day. 

This Celtic, Shakespearean, and Victorian Fairy Pictures art gallery welcomes you to this celebration of all things Faerie created in a variety of different forms of mixed media ranging from very old fashioned to very, very modern. 

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