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Fairy Flowers
Bluebells: Fairies
are summoned to their midnight revels and dances by the ringing of these tiny flowers.
Primroses:
Primroses are one key into fairyland. There is a German legend about a little girl who found a doorway covered in flowers,
and when she touched it with a primrose, the door opened up, leading into an enchanted fairy castle.
Fern:
Pixie fairies are especially fond of ferns. One story tells of a young woman who accidentally sat on a fern, and instantly
a fairy man appeared and forced her to promise to watch over his fairy son and remain in fairyland for a year and a day.
Foxglove:
The name "foxglove" came from the words "folk's glove." Folks referred to little people, or fairies. One legend says that
fairies gave the blossoms to foxes to wear as gloves so they would not get caught raiding the chicken coop. According to another
legend, if you picked foxglove, you would offend the fairies. And if the fairies stole your baby, the juice of the foxglove
would help to get it back. In some stories, foxglove appears as a fairy's hat. Foxglove can sometimes heal and sometimes hurt.
It is a poisonous plant, but it is also used as medicine to treat heart disease.
Mushrooms: Used by
fairies as tables and stools.The species Amanita is the red and white mushrooms very poisonous....
Ragwort,
cabbage stalks, grass and straw: all of these were used by fairies for transportation in the same manner as a witch
uses a broom.
Saffron Crocus: The stamens from this fall flowering crocus constitute the herb saffron.
Any food prepared with saffron is a favorite fairy food. Saffron used as a dye will turn cloth a royal gold. Such cloth is
very valuable to fairies.
Fairy Pastimes: The most popular pastimes of fairies are music and dancing. At
night the fairies would rise from their homes and come out to dance away the hours of darkness. They especially love to dance
in the evening of the full moon. When the morning sun begins to rise, the fairies vanish.
Many mortals were enticed by
the beauty of dancing fairies and sought to watch them dance at night.
Fairy music is more melodious than human music
and there are many songs and tunes which are said to have originated from the fairies.
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Faery Homes: Spring is upon us and the flowers
are blooming. Below you will find an easy faery home to make. Place it in your garden to give your faery friends a place to
reside. I like to replace the faery home each Spring.
Making a faery house: When at all possible us all parts from nature.
You can make the house from wood or stone and as big or small as you like. If you have access to shale, flat river stones
or other flat stones, find some in the proper scale to the house you want. Look for pebbles, acorns, pinecones, dried
grasses, leaves, sticks, twigs, etc.; anything that would look nice in building and decorating your faery abode. You may also
want a crystal; I like to use amethyst, however, use what you like.
If you make your faery house with wood, gather twigs,
sticks, moss, etc. for floor, sides and roofing. Wrap your sticks and twigs together with green stems or long leaves.
Be sure to leave a door opening for the faery to enter. When you have the sides of your house done, put on your roof.
I like to use twigs than place moss on top of that. (If you used glue, give the house a day or two to set and loose
its smell, for glue can be offensive to faeries.) Do not use paint on the house! Ideal faery houses should look so natural
that they are almost hidden and a location close to the ground is best.
After you get this done start decorating the house
with the acorns, pinecones, pebbles etc in a pleasing manner. You can place some items inside the house if you like.
I attach the crystal above the door. You can use use floral wire wrapped around a section and than attach it to one
of the roof twigs. Sometimes I will even place a trinket (faery love bright and shining things) in the house. Do not
use Iron or nickel as this repels faery.
When ready place the little faery home somewhere in your garden or flowerbeds.
Be sure and plant around some of the faery favorite flowers and plants. Call out and let the faery know that this is
a place for them. I like to place some milk or honey cakes near the home, but don't place food if your concerned about attracting
animals.
Now you have a special place for your faery friends to visit. You can put as many of these around as you like.
I usually keep two or three around.
Faery Music:
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Faery are known for their love of music and dance. Their music is said to bewitch humans. To sleep above a faery raithe (their
home in the ground) it is said to leave you haunted for life by the beautiful sound. Men are known to have gone mad fore they
could not rid their minds of the fairy tune.
On the other hand Fairy are often lured by the sound of beautiful music. If
you come upon a Leprechaun, playing music. He will dance his way to his gold. If you stop the music he will stop dancing and
disappear. While there are some fae that dislike music, the majority love it. Many are quite good musicians. So if you hear
a haunting, lilting melody deep in the woods and your feet are urged to dance you may have been bewitched by fairy music.
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