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So this is what happens when I doodle during class after reading my fairy book. But I don't know if you can actually call any of these fairies, just general oddments I guess. Although I do seem to recall a fae that's basically a toad with wings, I just can't remember what it's called....Related content
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Wow what an interesting interpretation, I really like their designs.
The wheel at the bottom is intriguing as well.
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Well you know, fairies that are just tiny naked ladies are so boring to me. Like that kind of thing is alright in moderation, but it's robbing fae of all the amazing and creative and ugly designs that are possible 
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Dude, these are wonderful and slightly terrifying. Imagine getting struck with that fairy toad's tongue! Love them.
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Thanks! My favorite fairies are the slightly terrifying ones. (and haha, that fairy toad has a tongue like a Canadian goose! I like to think he jabs it into people's ears)
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lol yeah he's like: Hey buddy! I think ya got some earwax, lemme help- aw nah, it was just brains. Whoops.Ā
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I don't know what these are but they're adorable !
Though I assume that they would do something nasty.Ā
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Awww, thank you
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Well the bottom would look pretty amusing. 
Why does everything in the fairy world want to kill humanity ??Ā
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I don't know how it would manage that, but that would be pretty awesome!
I'm not sure actually. The more I read about fairy world, the more fascinating it seems. Creatures are rarely all good (though many are almost always evil) But there are a huge number that just seem to be chaotic neutral. Like they'll leave you alone if you leave them alone, but if you even look at them wrong they will fuck your ass up nine ways to Sunday. For all that they love virtue, fae do not seem to be a very forgiving lot.
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Oh god. These fairies sound like me when I wake up on the wrong side of bed !! 
I don't actually know anything about fairies. We don't have any stories about them or such.Ā
But from the sound of this, they do have a very short temper.
So what is the main cause of fairies ?Ā
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Hahha, yeah I get like that when I'm really tired too XD I also tend to act like I'm high or something XD My brain just won't brain right. I once participated in a speech tournament, and was in like four different events, and had to stay up 23 hours on just 2 and a half hours of sleep. I was so tired that I almost walked into a white painted wall because I thought it was fog.
Haha, well America doesn't have fairy lore either. (or much of any kind of lore actually, unless you're Native American, and I'm German-American so I don't really "count" in that) But I learn fairy lore from other countries. Mostly English and Irish, but I'll take Indian or Chinese or Korean or Russian or whatever, it's all fascinating to me. I have a book called A Dictionary of Fairies by Katherine Briggs (I can't hold it against her that she shares her name with a girl who wanted to drown me at church camp) and it's one of my most prized possessions. It's more of an encyclopaedia than a dictionary, giving an overview of each type of fairy (hobgoblin, merrow, pokey-hokey, the Subterraneans...), specific fairies or people involved in their tales (Wag-at-the-Wa', Yallery Brown, the Green Children, The Mester Stoorworm....), and various things that you should know about fairy and their world (prayers and protection against them, ways to protect babies, fairy mounds, fairy funerals...) It's a great book, and is a great jumping off place for an in-depth study of fairies, though it also mostly focuses on the British Isles.
Ahaha, well that's kind of an interesting question to which there aren't really any clear answers, and most answers depends on how the person answering thinks of fairies and what their theological beliefs are, rather than a clear regional difference. In the 17th and 18th century and still today actually, especially with older people, fairies are believed to be the dead, or lost Christian souls, or fallen angels, or sometimes astral or elemental spirits, depending on what type of fairy you're talking about. The Small People of Cornwall were believed to be the souls of heathens that were born and died before Christianity, and were considered not good enough for heaven and not bad enough for hell and so were left on earth. Piskies are the souls of unbaptized babies that appear as little white moths in twilight. However, the Welsh often believed that fairies were somewhere between material and spiritual and were their own race of beings apart from humans. Some people believed that fairies were angels that formed a rebellion against God and left heaven to form their own kingdom and as they were leaving, God ordered the doors to both heaven and hell to be shut, and there was no where else for the deserting angels to go except into the holes of the earth. Nowadays it is quite common to find people who believe in fairies to also believe in other dimensions, and claim fairies belong to one of these dimensions that are not parallel but are more perpendicular, or at least intersecting at certain points and each dimension gets a distorted view of the other at certain times and places. I once read a particularly fascinating theory along these lines that said that we we call fairies are actually celestial beings on a different dimensional plane whose form is connected to the human conscious thought and take their shape from our idea of what they are like, therefore the reality of fairies would change with the collective social idea of fairies. I don't really have an explanation I favor as the "truth" (if indeed there is a truth) but I love to learn them all.
Sorry this went on so long. I love fairy lore, man. I really do.
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Oh my ! ... What's a speech tournament ?? A contest who can talk the longest about a particular subject such as why you should vote me for President 2014 ??Ā
What do you do in a fairy funeral ?? That book sounds really nice. Ā I bet it has like Victorian style drawings in it. I actually thought there were more countries with fairy lore. I think it's a shame though. All that we have are mermaids and the Babaw (who is something like the boogieman but I think he's a child). Also church camps sounds dangerous.Ā
Wow I've never guessed that there are serious in-depth theories about fairies ! I liked the one with the stranded souls that roam the earth. I always wondered what would happen if you're neither good or bad. I guess I finally got my answer
Oh don't worry. I really find this interesting. Definitely much better than the Disney type of fairies.Ā
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Hahha, oh no, not like that. There's actually time limits on how long you're allowed to talk, and I think it was only 3 to 6 minutes. There are several kinds of speech tournaments, but I was in Informative/Persuasive (which is technically two competitions but with the same set of rules so they're in the same category) We would spend weeks and weeks gathering information about news stories from all over the world (because we don't know what our topic is going to be until about half an hour before our speech) and organizing them and memorizing them and we took all of that research to the competitions. Thirty minutes before we are scheduled to give our speeches, we draw our topics, which can be just about anything though it was always political (ie: "Is China's space program a threat or an encouragement to America's space program?" "Should the US government worry about Kim Jong Il's son inheriting his power?" "What steps are being taken to provide vaccine access to rural communities in Texas?") Then we have half an hour to pick out whatever research we may have on the subject, write our speech, put notes on a note card (we're allowed to use one index card with notes on one side) and then when the time is up, we each go into the judging room one at a time give our speech in front of the judge. Both contests had the same rules, but Informative was just giving neutral information on a subject, and for Persuasive you were actually supposed to try to persuade the judge one way or the other on an issue. (I liked Informative a lot better because I can talk about facts all day long, but I don't have a lot of opinions on political things)
And a fairy funeral isn't something humans do, it's when a fairy dies and the other fairies have a funeral for them. Sometimes humans just happen to see them, but often it's an omen of death. Actually the book doesn't have a lot of drawings in it, but the ones it does have are really nice
Dude though, American folklore suuuuuuuuucks. There's Native American folklore, which is actually pretty cool, but I'm not Native American, so that's not really "mine" And all the white people folklore is mostly based around people, we don't have creatures really. And even that is not that kind of special.
And yeah, fairies are a lot more serious and varied than people give them credit for! It's so nice to find someone else who likes learning about them too!
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Wow that's definitely going onto my certainly-never-gonna-do-even-if-I-get-paid-a-bazillion-dollars List.
I always get soo nervous when I have to give out a speech. 
Too bad that the German system mostly depends on this kind of assignments. Hehehe... I am so doomed
But hey ! I am sure it helps in boosting the career.
Oh my. So basically one wouldn't live to tell the tale of seeing a fairy funeral ? That's harsh...
Lord of the rings was awesome and everything looked epic. Those elves looked like ghosts. In those white glowing dresses.
Do fairies even wear dresses ? I mean the ones that do, is it made up of petals ??Ā
Well it's the same with Maltese folklore. Most figures are indeed humans with weird looks.
Like one had a long neck so they called him something like a giraffe or something. I dunno. Nobody remembers anyway.Ā
To be honest, if I knew all this as a child I would be glad on (trying) becoming a witch
Hey humans live for knowledge, right ?
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Haha, well I was like that at first, but now I'm much better, I just kind of go numb when I talk in front of people and can say anything and have no shame until I sit down. But I'm sure you'll learn how to manage
Well the omen isn't necessarily of your death. It could mean the death of a family member or friend. I've never actually seen much of Lord of the Rings, only about half of the first movie. I love fantasy, but stories like that tend to bore me very deeply. And yes, some fairies wear dresses, sometimes it's made out of nature, sometimes they're made out of cloth, sometimes they're sort of a mix between the two, like I've heard of stories of fairies that wear clothes that were made with cloth woven out of spiderweb. And then there is the Seelie Court (which is sort of the "good" fairies, though they're not all very good, they're kind of pompous and reject anything that doesn't fit their standards of beauty and proper-ness) are often portrayed rather like the court of Louis XIV, with huge poofy dresses and gold and elegant finery everywhere. Sometimes though a fairy dwelling can look beautiful like that, but it's just the fairy glamour, fooling humans into seeing wonders where there is only dirt and leaves and coarse living. There are various ways to see past the glamour though, like having red hair, or being the seventh son of a seventh son, or bathing in fairy tears, or having a fairy spit in your eye, or having fairy ointment rubbed on your eye. The last two you should be careful of though, because a fairy will always ask which eye you can see them out of, and if you tell them then they'll poke out whichever eye you name.
Yeah, we dont' even have anything that cool XD Let's see, we have Paul Bunyan the lumberjack, who is super huge and tall and did lots of stuff (he's my absolute favorite guy though, he was my frikkin hero as a kid), Pecos Bill, who I can't remember anything about except that he had a horse named Lightning that was born out of a thunderstorm and could run from the east coast to the west coast in the blink of an eye, and John Henry, who worked for the railroad and beat a digging machine at digging through a mountain and then keeled over dead.
OMG! I was always pretending I was a witch as a kid!! My cousin and I would mix up potions out of plants in our backyards! Once she claimed she found fairies in a scrap pile behind her house, and we left them fairy gifts (they like shiny, pretty things) I didn't realize that she was lying OTL Awww, that's a great thought
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Only time can tell on that issue
Aw a dress made out of webs sounds pretty. So basically fairies are tricksters. I don't think they have an actual reason why they should fool humans. I guess it's just for the LOL'sĀ
Paul Bunyan sounds really cool. Also John Henry reminds me of the "Creator" of Marathons.Ā
I only slimed up the kitchen and flailed a stick around.
I loved the corn slime. My brother usually joined me and we pretended to have witch adventured (he called himself a wizard though I guess that's the correct term). My mum used to get annoyed for we took our wands with us everywhere, to demonstrate our POWER (which was poking people with a stick) !!! Muwahahaha.Ā
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Well there's so many types of fairies, some of them have reasons, a lot of them don't. But they do seem to often operate on some kind of "fairness", like if you spy on them or steal something from them or are not a good person, they'll punish you. Other times, yeah, they're just being dicks for no reason XD
Paul Bunyan.
Was.
The.
COOLEST.
He had a blue ox named Babe. He had a pancake griddle so huge to feed all his men, they they had to grease it down by men strapping bacon to their feet and skating on the griddle with it. When he shot birds, they went so high in the air from the blast that they'd be rotten by the time they fell down, so he had to start packing his shells with salt to preserve them when they got hit. He accidentally cut his dog in half and tried to sew him back together, but it was dark, so he sewed the back half on upside down and had to teach him how to run on both pairs of legs by flipping over when one pair got tired. There are so many Paul Bunyan stories, I can't even remember them all. My uncle had a book when I was a kid that had them all, and I wish I could find it again, I love this guy so so much.
Actually the proper term for a male witch is just "witch" (it's technically a gender neutral term) And man, it sounds like you and your brother had lots of fun together!! XD
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O-O But I guess it's natural. I would also try to punish people if they steal something from me.Ā
This guy sounds AWESOME !! And I would love to have some pancakes from him. Is there some comics about his adventures ??
If not there should be.Ā
Haha. But I think he still wouldn't have called himself a witch.
We did have loads of fun 
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Yeah me too XD
And I don't know if there's a Paul Bunyan comic, but I know there are lots of books about him. Here's a website with some of his stories americanfolklore.net/folklore/ā¦
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Stories. O3O I must read them when I have time.
Thanks for sharing.Ā
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