Fairies History

Fairies History tells us that many tribal folk-stories concentrated on the beings of our Earth.

Fairies have been described as...

"the beings of flood and field",

the beings of light... that inhabit the Earth with us.

Peasants passed on the folklore around the campfire and created characters in stories that fit different situations...

and often explained natural events.
Fairies History shows that as the stories developed over time they also described human relations of many kinds.

Follow the above link for information on the origin of the word, Fairie.

If you were to ask people in Wales or many parts of the British Isles, about the old folklore...

they would assure you that no one of this generation really believes in the Fairie History or of the actual existence of their realm.

But maybe they really did believe!

However...

they would also all assure you that people in previous generations really did believe and lived their lives according to the old stories.

What is interesting is that researchers have reported this attitude in rural areas for quite a few hundred years.

In fact in the last 500 years many people reported that other folk did believe in the Fairies History...

but of course they themselves did not.

It is an amusing and intriguing thought that in many rural areas this attitude might still be reflected.

Perhaps we all have an underlying belief in things unseen.

During Arthur's time the people of South Wales regarded North Wales as the primary land of Faerie.

They imagined that it was the place inhabited by giants, monsters, magicians, and all the enchanted creatures.

In later times Fairy Land was reported to be located in the Vale of Neath, in lamorganshire.

A steep and rugged crag in a mountain, called Craig y Ddinas, was rumored to be the land of the fairy tribes.

One King and protector of all the Fairies and Goblins was Gwyn ap Nudd.

Many times his name is mentioned in ancient Welsh poetry.

In other references Gwyn ap Nudd is known to be the King of Annwn, meaning the King of Hell or the Shadow-Land.

So you see that the Fairy folklore is all about good and evil, and the battle between them in the universe.

There are also stories of a Fairy Queen named Morgana, from the name Mor Gwyn.

Avalon of Arthurian legends is an excellent example of Fairy Land.

These were islands inhabited by Fairies and would be seen by human eyes once in a while.

Apparently, they disappeared very suddenly into the mist.

Some sailors reported that they went onto these islands, and when they returned to their ships, the islands suddenly disappeared.

In the 5th Century a British King named Gavran sailed off in search of these islands...

with his family and they were never seen again.

Obviously Fairies History is hotly debated, and we can choose to believe what we like.