[97] Folklore Evil Fairies

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[90] Folklore Evil Fairies Free. The unfortunate target would be lifted and dropped from great heights. Various folk theories about the origins of fairies include casting them as either demoted angels or demons in a christian tradition as minor deities in pagan belief systems as spirits of the dead as prehistoric precursors to humans or as elementals. Pooka or púca was a shape shifting creature.

Folklore tells us that cultures across europe have traditionally believed that fairy rings are the dwelling place of fairies elves witches and other magical beings and that in some cases they may be dangerous to enter. Fairy legends and traditions 1825 was written by thomas crofton croker. The fairies of the past were feared as dangerous and powerful beings who were sometimes friendly to humans but could also be cruel or mischievous.

Many accounts within irish folklore describe people who have had a much more disturbing fairy encounter and those who speak of these experiences are very often traumatised by what has happened to them. Fairies of folklore were blamed for all manner of mischief and ills ranging from petty vandalism and theft to outright murder and kidnap. This malevolent swarm usually flew at night fighting amongst themselves and hunting for victims.

That is providing they recover enough to even speak about it because meeting the fairy folk can lead to abduction madness and even death. The fairies of irish english scottish and welsh folklore have been classified in a variety of ways. These categories may reflect an earlier classification of the germanic elves of light and darkness as the corresponding insular celtic fair folk do not appear to have a comparable division.

This creature is one of the most widespread among europe and includes several subtypes. Two of the most prominent categories derived from scottish folklore are the division into the seelie court and the unseelie court. In scottish stories the sluagh was composed of fairies who were thought to be the souls of evil people and those who died without being baptized.

Fairies of folklore were vicious vindictive and cruel embodying forces of nature lesser deities or even the spirits of the dead depending on the legend and often appearing as monstrous figures rather than the winged pixie like beings we associate the word with today. The common modern depiction of fairies in children s stories represents a bowdlerization of what was once a serious and even sinister folkloric tradition. Ancient legends mystic charms and superstitions of ireland 1887 was written by lady francesca speranza wilde.