A Child's Eye View of The Faery Faith

By Morgan Daimler

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Spero Publishing
• Release date: Oct 9, 2012
• ISBN: 9781311789945

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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