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Faeries and ‘Imaginary’ Friends
Parents often contact me because they’re afraid that a child’s ‘imaginary’ friend is actually a ghost.
In most cases, they don’t need to worry. I believe that the vast majority of invisible friends (or friends that only the child can see) are faeries.
Shy faeries may choose to remain invisible. Other faeries have their own reasons for [...]
Other Recent Articles
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A brief history of dragons
The history of dragons is not an easy subject. Frankly, dragons appear in earliest recorded history. Nobody ...
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 [...]
Faerie history
How Shakespeare changed everythingShakespeare’s plays changed almost everything that we think about faeries.
Before Shakespeare wrote about them, most people were terrified of faeries. One of the most frightening was a faerie called Robin Goodfellow. He was blamed for bad luck, poor harvests, and even death.
Then, Shakespeare suggested that faeries might not be evil… just mischievous.
During Shakespeare’s era, that [...]
Faerie arts and crafts
How to make a faerie doorHere are my notes from my first “gnome door,” years ago. It was a far more formal design than the faerie door shown at left, but the process of making it is very similar.
The “door” that I made is actually a door and staircase. I went to a dollhouse store and [...]
