| Typology Faërie |
| Total Entries 7 |
| Representative Lady of the Lake/Vivien |
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Modern society has lived with the Disneyfied version of fairies for so long — the Fairy Godmothers of Cinderella (Fairy Tale) and Sleeping Beauty, Tinker Bell in Peter Pan — that it seems hard to imagine that some would consider fairies evil, and yet, some of them were. The fairies of old weren’t cute little bewinged pixies who fluttered happily around humans. Elves didn’t make children toys or live deep in forests with no interaction with mortals. Often, they would interact with humans with no thought to the consequences of their actions, or they would be tricksters that deliberately delighted in the utter mess they made of mortal lives (such as the classic character, Puck, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream). At worst, they’re like serial killers with magic: otherworldly horrors who kidnap humans for explicit use as playthings to torment, assault, rape, maim, or eat — or sometimes to find even worse, very abstract things to do to them (some stories in folklore get dark). The Fair Folk almost always live in the Land of Faerie, often have Faerie Courts and even full-scale Wainscot Societies, and may be depicted as an Inhumanly Beautiful Race. They are usually vulnerable to Cold Iron, though not always (the Irish “Dullahan” are weak to gold)… ~ The Fair Folk – TV Tropes
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