in fairies?
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What we know...... Many people hold witness to having seen fairies. Not just one or two, but many, dancing in the moonlight (as fairies love to dance) or performing some type of ceremonial procession. What we don't know...... .......is if these people are nuts, insane, bonkers, one taco short of a combo plate, etc., etc. It is typical only children, or adults with what is called a 'second
sight' tend to see fairies. To the rest of us fairies are only seen if
they (the fairies) want to be seen. It seems fairies live in what is
called fairyland and we're not sure if fairyland is of this realm or of
another realm, or maybe even another dimension. When someone sees a fairy,
did they accidentally step into some magical portal and unknowingly were
transferred to this new realm. Or did the fairies come here from their
realm. Its even possible, since fairies prefer to live underground, that
they actually exist here with us.
There are many ancient hilltop earthen-forts found all over the British Isles that are commonly referred to as "fairy-forts". Most reports of fairies, as well as "fairyland" come from these areas. These fairy-forts are typically atop hills. These hills have been known to open up at the fairies commands and give entrance to fairyland. The most famous place that is known as a portal to fairyland is
Glastonbury
Tor in England. In fact St. Michael's church was built atop this hill
to cover the portal. It was thought when the church was built that fairies
might have indeed been some type of servants for the devil.
Fairies are not seen as much today as they were in the middle ages. Perhaps this is because in days of old fairies were feared, thought to be products of the devil. People would ward them off with rue (thought to be a powerful anti-fairy herb), St. Johns wort, yarrow. Also iron crosses, horseshoes, four leaf clovers and walking sticks (mountain ash or rowan wood). Coral and amber items were also thought to protect people from fairies. In fact many reports of seeing fairies and portals to fairyland were on or around Hallows Eve (Halloween). People would claim they saw a hill open up, light coming from within and fairies all around. It was later found out that fairies were repelled by church bells and that the decline of the fairy population was due to the numerous churches that were later built in Britain. Many thought fairies worked magic not unlike witches, drawing their powers from the devil. Beyond this however, not all fairies were thought to be bad, in fact
many were good. Take for instance the ones caught on film, the
Cottingley fairies.
What, caught on film? But of course, two young girls in the year 1917
caught a group of fairies on film.
This was so convincing at the time that many people
believed these pictures to be true. In fact a book by
Conan Doyle the
inventor of Sherlock Holmes was even written about them. He named it "The
coming of fairies". The pictures, after much professional study, were said
to have been faked and many people later thought Doyle's book to be the
writing's of a very gullible person. Some even thought him to be crazy.
He caught the same flack as people today that write or tell about UFO's.
Even though these pictures were said to have been faked, no one knew how
they were faked. It wasn't until 1980 that the girls (now obviously older
women) confessed that the pictures were indeed faked. They still however
claim that fairies would visit them, they were just never able to get
pictures of them. In their frustration they made convincing cardboard
cutouts and resulted to forgery so everyone would know their story to be
true.
So, did fairies actually exist? Well, I'm an optimist, of course they did, somehow, someway. I think the real question is..... Do fairies still exist? |
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