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[97] English Folklore Fairies . Batten 1890 pb more english fairy tales by joseph jacobs illustrated by john d. English fairy and other folk tales by edwin sidney hartland illustrated by c e. Bede s ecclesiastical history of england 731 by bede ed.

Myths and stories about fairies do not have a single origin but are rather a collection of folk beliefs from disparate sources. Mermaids and mermen river spirits and spirits of pools are the most common nature fairies. Nevertheless fairy has come to be used as a kind of umbrella term in folklore studies grouping comparable.

The pendle witches perhaps the most notorious witch trial of the 16th century. Fairy also spelled faerie or faery a mythical being of folklore and romance usually having magic powers and dwelling on earth in close relationship with humans. As a diminutive sprite commonly in the shape of a delicate beautiful ageless winged woman dressed in diaphanous white clothing inhabiting fairyland.

They became known as the pendle witches witches in england. There is an unromantic fairy tale told in our nurseries the scene of which is laid in west sussex how. The term fairy is peculiar to the english language and to english folklore reflecting the conflation of germanic celtic and romance folklore and legend since the middle english period it is a romance word which has been given the associations of fair by folk etymology secondarily.

Brock 1890 pb english fairy tales by joseph jacobs illustrated by john d. Here you will find grouped together articles and features about witches fairies and monsters in british folklore. The gwyllion or the mountain fairies.

The ellyllon or the elves. It can appear as a dwarf creature typically having green clothes and hair living underground or in stone heaps and characteristically exercising magic powers to benevolent ends. Fairies foiling a pig theft.

The coblynau or the mine fairies. Black annis a blue faced hag haunts the dane hills in leicestershire and gentle annie who governs storms in the scottish lowlands are perhaps descended from the celtic goddess danu mother of ireland s cave fairies. In her some west sussex superstitions lingering in 1868 mrs latham recounts the following story.

A fairy is a type of mythical being or legendary creature found in the folklore of multiple european cultures a form of spirit often described as metaphysical supernatural or preternatural. The gwragedd annwn or the fairies of the lakes and streams. In the year 1612 at lancaster gaol ten people were hanged for the crime of witchcraft.

The fairies of irish english scottish and welsh folklore have been classified in a variety of ways. 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. English fairies english folktales fairies folklore folktales.