Fairies

[Midnight_Raven]

Where is the best place o find some in fo on these little creatures

[clef0628]

I ask this question once my self. Check out so of my answers.

http://www.mysticwicks.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3634&highlight=Fairy+books

[Emy]

Oh, and I got a ritual for meeting the fairies, I think... :)

Let me know if you want me to post it

Blessings

[Faery-Wings]

Originally posted by Emy
Oh, and I got a ritual for meeting the fairies, I think... :)

Let me know if you want me to post it

Blessings

Pretty please!!
I would like to see that too.

:)

BB

Chris

[Midnight_Raven]

Please post any rituals there are for faires. Thanxs

[Merrie]

You could look for the faerie books by brian froud, i think is his name. There are tidbits of info and folklore, and the artwork in them is wonderful. :)

[aquinnah]

There's a thread in the Magick and Rituals forum on the faery tradition - complete with a poll, links, rituals from past MW threads, literature suggestions and more! Come join us....

[xjsjaglvr]

How the faeries got their wings

Many years ago the faeries were not small with wings like a dragonfly, no, when first the faerie went upon this earth they were as tall as a child, wingless. They had great beauty and each year when Ariel the queen of the faeries awoke from her winter slumber she would send them forth to awaken the world from its sleep. The faeries would scurry about whispering to all the plants and the seeds in the ground that it was time to kiss the sky, spring was here. Awoken, the plants would grow, flowers would bloom and the earth would bring forth its bounty that all might eat from it. Among the faeries was one named Findabar, not as swift a runner as the other faeries, she still ran as hard as she could to help awaken the world. Findabar was a very clever faerie though. When the world had been awakened Findabar and the other faeries would spend the rest of the summer playing in the woods and fields. Now Findabars specialty was painting delicate designs on the wings of the butterflies. They would flock to her, each begging for a new and more colorful design. Findabar would do her best to grant each request and spent many a long day decorating the wings of the butterflies. Now at this time there was a cruel god, his name was MacDathos. He ruled the underworld, a cold and dark place, damp and filled with terrible things. MacDathos was jealous of the faeries and of those who walked upon the earth, warm in the summer sun. He set out to destroy the faeries and all the good they did. That year after the festival we call Samhain, when all the earth prepared to sleep, MacDathos went to see Queen Ariel of the faeries. "Ariel, I bring you greetings and a sweet wine of the first berries of the year," said MacDathos. Ariel greeted him, she did not care for the dark lord of the underworld but had no reason to fear him. MacDathos shared the wine with Ariel. She did not know it but he had placed a powerful potion in the wine which would cause Ariel to sleep well past spring. If the faerie queen overslept spring then even awakening the earth late would not save it. He knew that as swift as they were the faeries could not possibly awaken the all the earth in time. MacDathos knew the plants and crops must have time enough to grow before winter reappeared or the earth would die. The faeries would be destroyed and all the earth would be as his underworld. MacDathos drank the same wine as he offered Ariel, he did not care if he slept, for when he awoke the world would be his. Ariel soon fell into a deep slumber, and with her, all the faeries. The earth slept peacefully that long winter, but at the time when Ariel should have awakened she did not. When finally she did she knew something was horribly wrong, it was late in the season, the plants had not been awakened. The other faeries were panicked. They shouted to Ariel, "We cannot awaken all the earth in time, not all the plants will bear fruit, what can we do?"Ariel thought for a moment, but was unable to see a solution. "We must awaken as many as possible, at least part of the earth will survive." she ordered. Just then Findabar had a marvelous idea, "What if we had wings and could fly, we could go quicker from place to place and awaken all,"she said. "A marvelous idea," replied Ariel. She set about digging for her book of spells, all faeries are very good at spells you see and Ariel had a large, dusty old book just full of them. She turned page after page until she found just the one she needed. Now, you may not know this, but even the greatest wizard cannot create something from nothing. Ariel cast her spell and the faeries all began to grow wings, but as the wings grew larger the faeries grew smaller. Now, the spell completed, Ariel sent the faeries on their way. They flew quickly from plant, to hidden seed, to tree and awakened each and everything on earth in time to ensure the survival of all. Now about this time MacDathos also awoke, and instead of finding the earth lamenting the missing of spring was angered to see the plants growing and flowers blooming. He saw the faeries flitting about awakening all and knew he had been beaten. He went to the Grove of Ariel but she was gone helping to awaken the earth. Upon the ground by the faerie queens throne he saw the spell book still open. He read the spell and knew how he had been beaten. MacDathos thought "I may be beaten but I will win one battle yet." MacDathos took Queen Ariels spell book and hid it in the underworlds dark depths knowing no faerie may travel there. After they had finished awakening the earth all the faeries gathered in the Grove of Ariel to be returned to normal. Queen Ariel looked for her spell book but it was gone. She and the other faeries looked all over for it but could not find it. The faeries were saddened and then angry, shouting, "Findabar this is your fault, look at what your stupid idea has brought us to. We will never be the same." Now Findabar, had another idea, she went to where she kept the paints she used to decorate the butterflies with and began to paint the wings of the closest faerie. When the others saw how wonderful the wings looked they began to smile and laugh, each wanting to have her wings painted next. It took some time but Findabar painted every one of those faeries wings. Soon after that the faeries stopped wishing to be changed back to the way they were, and faeries have had wings ever since.
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