In 2006, I created a series of podcasts about faeries in fact and fiction. In 2010, the podcasts return.  New podcasts will appear every second Friday. Some planned podcast topics: 8 Jan 2010 – Faeries, an overview 22 Jan – History of little faeries 5 Feb – Faeries, angels, ghosts and aliens 19 Feb – [...]

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 [...]

The history of dragons is not an easy subject. Frankly, dragons appear in earliest recorded history. Nobody ever thought about where they came from, just as few people research where frogs come from. They just are. However, there are few current stories about dragons, unless you include the Loch Ness Monster. Today, many people think [...]

Shakespeare’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 [...]

Someone 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 to readily move between the worlds: fae folk, [...]