A BOOK OF FAIRIES
AND THEIR MAGIC

The belief in fairies was an almost universal attribute of early folk culture. The Old French fée, had the meaning "enchanter." Thus féerie meant a "state of fée" or "enchantment." Fairies are often depicted enchanting humans, casting illusions to alter their emotions and perceptions so as to make themselves at times alluring, frightening, or invisible. Modern English inherited the two terms "fae" and "fairy," along with all the associations attached to them. The question as to the essential nature of fairies has been the topic of myths, stories, and scholarly papers for a very long time. The traditional characteristics of fairies are depicted in European literature in such works as Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet; The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser; Tales of Mother Goose, by Charles Perrault; Grimm's Fairy Tales, by the brothers Grimm; a fairy-tale series by Andrew Lang, called the colored fairy tale books, for example, The Blue Fairy Tale Book and The Red Fairy Tale Book. In the earlier versions of Tolkien's Middle Earth, the creatures later known as Elves were called Fairies. In folklore fairies are generally considered beneficent toward humans. They can help increase finances and good fortune, bring love and success, enhance intuition, and ward off negativity. They are sensitive and capricious, however, and often inclined to play pranks; so if their resentment is not to be aroused, they must be spoken well of and always treated with deference. Croker has described fairies as being “a few inches high, airy and almost transparent in body; so delicate in their form that a dewdrop, when they chance to dance on it, trembles, indeed, but never breaks.” The term fairy is also loosely applied to such beings as brownies, gnomes, elves, nixies, goblins, trolls, dwarfs, pixies, kobolds, banshees, sylphs, sprites, and undines. The folk imagination not only conceives of fairyland as a distinct kingdom, but also imagines fairies as living in natural surroundings such as hills, trees, and streams and sees fairy rings, fairy tables, and fairy steeds in nature.

 

This book comes in two magical parts..  children's stories..

and mythical insight; it is

"A Guide to many a fairy's Story, from Fantasia to Magic".

Mother Goose Tales

The Colored Fairy Tale Books

Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales by the brothers Grimm

Fairy tales from different lands

Full Text Books

Canadian Wonder Tales
by Cyrus MacMillan    Cinderella: 345 Variants
by Marian Roalfe Cox    Czecholovak Fairy Tales
by Parker Fillmore    East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon
by Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen    English Fairy Tales    More English Fairy Tales   Celtic Fairy Tales
More Celtic Fairy Tales    Indian Fairy Tales      European Folk and Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

Facetious Nights of Straparola    The Fairy Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy    Folk Tales from the Russian
by Verra Xenophontovna Kalamatiano de Blumenthal     Household Talesby Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Il Pentameroneby Giambattista Basile    Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens    Japanese Fairy Talesby Yei Theodora Ozaki

Jataka Tales  More Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt    Myths and Folklore of Irelandby Jeremiah Curtin    Old Hungarian Fairy Talesby Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Old Peter's Russian Talesby Arthur Ransome    Philippine Folk Talesby Mabel Cook Cole    Popular Tales of the Norseby Asbjornsen and Moe

Russian Wonder Talesby Post Wheeler    The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales From the Old French by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

Fairy Tale Authors    Hans Christian Andersen     Asbjornsen and Moe     Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy     Giambattista Basile     Thomas Crane 

    Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm     Joseph Jacobs     Charles Perrault      Straparola     Oscar Wilde

Sprites and Elementals,
GENERIC CLASSIFICATION
They are grouped in generic families based on big differences among them, and the elements they inhabit or preferrably domain. They could be classified as follows:

The Alchemical Wedding. The Four Cardinal Directions and the Medicine Wheel. 8 seasonal holidays in the mystical year

Air Spirits: Silfides Gases, ether
The air element, featured by intelligence, represented by Spring and Dawn is inhabited by Sylphs in the form of butterflies. They control winds, help birds in their migrations and flowers in their pollination. Their mostly light yellow- with a toned translucent appearance  and are often is present in the scent of wet herb when the sky is threatening to rain. Sylphs also change colors to match the hue of the sky or the rainbows in dew.

Lightning Spirits: Fire Salamanders, Star fire, spectrums
The Fire element features both creation and destruction. It is represented by Summer, and daylight. It is inhabited by Salamanders, Farralis and Ra-Arus, (appearing as reddish or violet) salamanders and dragons. They give the idea that with courage and imagination everything can be done. They send forth projective energy, and dominate the element. No fire would be ignited without their intervention.

Water Spirits: liquids, continuums
Nymphs, Mermaids, Water Dragons Nereids, Naiads, Undines,and Water Goblins.
The water element featured by love and cures, represented by Autumn and Sunset, is inhabited by nymphs, mermaids, nereids, and undines. They appear as mythological creatures in all liquids, such as seas, rivers, fresh water brooks, falls, pools, mist  and clouds. Their aspect vary depending on their habitat. Nereids rule the seas; undines called Naiads by the Greek, are found in lakes. They are mostly blue from indigo to aquamarine with a receptive energy. Like mermaids, they attract any sailor with their songs until they wreck. They are the ones channeling natural river beds and can cause powerful storms.

Earth Spirits: Solids, crystali entities
The Earth element is the most dense.  It is inhabited by Ladies of the wood, Elfs, and Gnomes, Fairies or ladies are characterized by their kindness and for being the oldest inhabitants of the plant kingdom. They may either be imposing or tiny; their powers, however, are incredible. They are mostly green and brown and have a receptive energy. Or the earth element may be represented by Ice, Winter or the dark with goblins, and trolls. 

AROURA OR IRIS FAIRIES
They dominate the change in appearance, have an etereous beauty, are one of the best disposition elfs. They are often translucent and purple or blue coloured. There are other light elfs with the ability to move over fire or inside wood and stone. They are called Ellefolk; can foretell the future, sing and compose a fascinating and enraptured music. They love the sunrise over ocean and northern lights.

NIGHT FEY
They build their homes beneath the earth with the creeping things. They are frequently found in houses where they prefer dark corners, only visible at night. They may be of grey, brown, red or black colours. If a house has locks with no keys or small cracks in the wood, Gremlins or Brownies come in through those tiny spaces. They have many names, such as Cauchemar, Qaalruter, Nachtmannle.

TWILIGHT SPRITES
They are the most numerous. They may be found in trees, plants, brooks or ponds. They are quite cautious and protected from the interference of strangers. They share forest news among the frogs, turtles, lightning bugs, dragonflies and birds. they like the day but love stars and  full moons too! They are the keepers of pixie dust.

WEE PEOPLE
Since these elementary beings are earth spirits, they preferably work the soil and tree roots, to which they grant power. They look like funny little old folk, as they belong to a race coming from the beginning of times. They also guard mountain treasure and can be found where precious stones are. Skilled at alchemy, blacksmithing, crafts, cooking and plant lore; these tiny creatures build their homes under aging trees or in mountain caves. They only go out at sunrise or sunset. They are friends of animals, they speak their same language and protect them from danger. The best feasts are when the freezing winds blow over the woods dancing and playing, and some prefer rain for their dances.
 

    Songs &   Poems
  Sprites  &  Fairies

  Mythic Festivals    Moon Gardens  Flower Art  Pet Magic  Artists Galleries
Fantasy Art   Creative Art

Magical Realism aims to seize the paradox of the union of opposites.  Magical realism is characterized by two conflicting perspectives, one based on a rational view of reality and the other on the acceptance of the supernatural as reality.   magical realism involves the fusion of the real and the fantastic,   The presence of the supernatural in magical realism is often connected to the primeval or "magical’ Indian mentality, which exists in conjunction with European rationality.  magical realism offers a world view that is not based on natural or physical laws nor objective reality.  However, this world is not separated from reality either. fantastical visual imagery from the subconscious mind is used The following elements are found in many magical realist novels and films, but not all are found in all of them and many are found in novels or films that could fall under other genres.

Contains fantastical elements; Incorporates legend or folklore. Ends leaving the reader uncertain, whether to believe in the magical interpretation or the realist interpretation of the events in the story

The fantastic elements may be intuitively "logical" but are never explained and for this reason characters accept rather than question the logic of the magical element. Exhibits a richness of sensory details

Distorts time so that it is cyclical or so that it appears absent. Another technique is to collapse time in order to create a setting in which the present repeats or resembles the past.

Inverts cause and effect, for instance a character may suffer before a transformation occurs. Uses a mirroring of either past and present, astral and physical planes, or of characters

Presents events from multiple perspectives, such as those of belief and disbelief or the fertile oasis and the sanctuary to the city.

 

 
Note that it is common in some fantasy stories to include a frame story, in which the central, fantastic story is explained as a dream. Because the main story works equally well with or without the frame story, and since either way the reader feels no ambiguity about choosing between the magical and the real interpretation, these are usually not included in the category of magical realism.
Many early magical realists such as Alejo Carpentier and Miguel Angel Asturias studied with the surrealists, and surrealism, as an international movement, influenced many aspects of Latin American art. Surrealists, however, try to discover and portray that which is above or superior to the “real” through the use of techniques such as automatic writing, hypnosis, and dreaming. Magical realists, on the other hand, portray the real world itself as having marvelous aspects inherent in it.

Slipstream - Slipstream describes fiction that falls between "mainstream" literature and the fantasy and science fiction genres (the name itself is wordplay on the term "mainstream"). Where science fiction and fantasy novels treat their fantastical elements as being very literal, real elements of their world, slipstream usually explores these elements in a more surreal fashion, and delves more into their satirical or metaphorical importance. Compared to magical realism the fantastical elements of slipstream also tend to be more extravagant, and their existence is usually more jarring to their comparative realities than that which is found in magic realism

Pseudorealism, pseudo-realism, or pseudo realism is a visual arts style, in which an altered view of reality is presented. In film, the term refers to heavy use of special effects to create a fantasy with the illusion of reality. In art, it is a style in which reality is depicted through abstract symbols and off-beat color schemes.

emphasis on the techniques of the Old Masters that gave the Fantastic Realist painters a grounding in realism (expressed with a clarity and detail some have compared to early Flemish painting) combined with religious and esoteric symbolism.
 

SEARCH THE BOOK OF FAIRIES FOR FAIRY QUESTIONS!

OR TALES OF HEROES AND MYTHS.

A Study of Fairy Talesby Laura F. Kready  

Fairy Tales;Their Origin and Meaningby John Thackray Bunce

Tom Tit Tot: An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk-Tale by Edward Clodd

Intuition and Creativity are a special magic and may be housed in fantasy symbols & imagination

Mary's Flowers/  *  \Rainbow-Bridge/  *  \Romance

There is a real magic!

for the individual there are 2 rules..

1. thanksgiving and visualization...    2.  you can get what you want, but not how you wanted it

Collectively for the joyful family and the future of humanity

THE REAL MAGIC IS IN THE HEARTS OF THE CHILDREN!