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Fairy
The name
given to a wide variety of mythological supernatural beings that either help or hinder mankind.
Fairy
beliefs are strongest in the Celtic lore of Britain, Ireland and
Europe, but nearly every culture possesses myths and legends concerning
miniature biped creatures. The word is
derived from the Latin fata, ‘fate', which refers to the mythical Fates, three women
who spin and control the threads of life.
According to theory, fairies are
either: earthbound unbaptized souls; guardians of the souls of the dead; ghosts of venerated ancestors; fallen angels condemned to remain on earth;
nature
spirits, or
small human beings. They are said to have magical
powers and to consort with witches and other
humans with supernatural powers. They have many different names and come in all shapes and
sizes. They are invisible and can only be seen by clairvoyants
or when they make themselves visible.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was deeply
interested in spiritualism and psychic phenomena. In the early 1920s he was
fooled by a photograph purporting to show tiny, winged, female figures dressed in
fashionable gowns and floating in the air. The picture was taken by two young sisters,
Elsie and Francis Wright, of Cottingley, Yorkshire. The girls insisted the photograph was
genuine, and despite expert testimony that the picture was a fake, Doyle wrote about the
picture as proof of fairies in his The Coming of the Fairies (1922). The Wright sisters
did not admit that the photo was a fraud until the 1980s. See
Banshee,
Cluricane,
Leprechaun,
Elf and
Gnome.
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