Will-O-The Wisp. Shidhe. Gnome. Goblin. These are the "little people" who inhabit our Earth...hiding and watching...
The prefered food of fairies are milk, honey and cream. People in the Old Country would leave these gifts outside in hopes fairies would visit, and occasionally help on the farms.
During the Victorian era, fairies were believed to live at the boundries of gardens.
At one time it was believed that fairies would steal newborn children. After taking the baby, the fairy would leave some token in it's place such as a twig or wooden figure.
Gnomes are friends of all the animals of their forest. It is not suprising to find a gnome riding on the back of a bird, deer or even a wolf!
The Will-O-The Wisp are dancing lights found around the edges of swamps or marshes. People become entranced with following these dancing lights...never to be seen again...
The Pooka is an Irish shapechanger who likes to take the form of a horse...only to throw the rider at the first morning light...beware! This one is a charming liar.
Warning..to hear the wail of the Banshee means a death will occur in your family
The Fairies
The fairies have never a penny to spend,
They haven't a thing put by,
But theirs is the dower of bird and of flower
And theirs are the earth and sky.
And though you should live in a palace of gold
Or sleep in a dried up ditch,
You could never be as poor as the fairies are,
And never as rich.
Since ever and ever the world began
They have danced like a ribbon of flame,
they have sung their song through the centuries long
And yet it is never the same.
And though you be foolish or though you be wise,
With hair of silver or gold,
You can never be as young as the fairies are,
And Never as old.
--By Rose Fyleman
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Brightest of Blessings