Faerie♥Kat Talks About Faeries
Faeries, fairies and the fae! And by extension, fairytales, faery witchcraft and magic, and the Summer Land, land of the fae.
From the time I started to read at the age of two, I have been in love with all the denizens in the Realm of Faerie, not just the light and airy winged variety.
As beautiful and dainty as they are, they don’t encompass the totality of the fabric of reality and creation. Wherever there is light, there must dark be also. In the world of the fae this rule holds just as true as it does in ours.
So give me
brownies,
boggarts
andbanshees,
dryads,
dragons
and dwarves,
gnomes,
grims
and gryphons,
kelpies
and knockers,
pixies
and phookas,
sprites,
sylphs,
spriggans
and selkies,
changelings,
elves
and hobgoblins,
leprechauns,
mermaids,
nymphs
and trows,
unicorns,
will o’ the wisps
and let’s not forgetthe bogeyman!
For me, no other better archetypes exist that so clearly personify the natural energies of our world, helping us to understand the cycle of birth, sex, fertility and death. It has been suggested that Faeries may be a composition of the spirits of nature, Pagan deities, souls of the Pagan dead, folk memories of aboriginal races, and belief in an Underworld. Wherever Faeries originated, they exist in the realm between the worlds along with Elementals, Spirits, Angels, Gods and Goddesses.
