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Other Recent Articles
Here are more of our newest faerie articles.
Featured articles
How Shakespeare changed everything
Shakespeare's plays changed almost everything that we think about faeries. Before Shakespeare wrote about them, most people were terrified of faeries. ...
Faeries in your family tree
Do you have fae ancestry? I mean really fae ancestry, the kind that can be written on your ...
Faeries’ likes and dislikes
You do not have to believe in faeries. You must be willing to objectively see what's ...
A faerie primer
Different kinds of faeriesSomeone asked me if the faeries are basically all the same. The resounding answer is, “No.” They are very different kinds of beings, and different kinds may have starkly different ancestry. Here’s my email about this:
There are many words that categorize the beings who are able […]
How to attract faeries
What faeries look likeFirst of all, hardly anyone sees faeries (or fairies), full-face and in bright light. Most people see them slightly out of straight-on vision, or out of the corner of an eye. (When you look straight at them, they vanish. Part of this may […]
Other wondrous creatures
History of mermaidsMermaids–and mermen–appear as consistently in history as faeries and dragons. Like their “mythological” counterparts, mermaids were considered real until the early 20th century.
In fact, although we think of Disney’s Ariel when we hear the word “mermaids,” their actual history is ancient, well-founded, and–until recent years–treated as fact, not fantasy.
In this […]
