FairysLove Fairys? There are so many types of Fairies, fairy pixies, water fairies, moon fairies, but most important pretty fairies. Come and read about their faery world. They are ethereal little creatures - usually with wings that have sparked our imaginations for thousands of years. They have often sparked our imagination enough that many people want to draw them. Capturing one in a drawing and then coloring or painting. This has gone on for centuries. Fantasy art has been a creative muse that has inspired the use of these creatures in so many arts, drawing and painting. This info page is to give you ideas from the history and interesting facts and perhaps help to inspire your art projects. To me the world of the fairy tales includes gorgeous and scary creatures, water fairies, wood fairies, moon fairies, and even gothic ones and dark faeries, even mermaids and unicorns. On this page you will find information and inspiration about all of these.
Where they live?They live in the grasses and flowers and somehow change to blend in with whatever flower they happen to be sitting on.Sometimes they disguise themselves to blend into a tree trunk, or disguise themselves as beautiful butterflies, dragon flies, or at night fire flies. They are magic. So they are not always easy to see We have to squint and we have to believe. Scary or Gothic FairysNotice that every fairy tale always has an evil creature like malificent in Sleeping Beauty - who would cast curses on royal families, etc.Snow White had an evil Queen, Cinderella had an evil stepmother, and Rumpelstiltskin was the actual evil fairy - or a gnome. Other scary fairies were part of great oral traditions and were passed down as folk tales to scare young children into bed at night. Fairies were known to kidnap wayward youngsters. They could put spells young men and women - in the form of love spells, or water fairies could actually lure young men to their deaths when they pulled them to their watery depths. Nice Pretty FairiesWhen you remember the tale of Sleeping Beauty, you might remember the three lovely fairies who gave sweet gifts to Aurora the baby. They also adopted her and took care of her to keep her safe in the woods away from Malificent.Cinderella also met a wonderful one in the form of a Fairy Godmother, who made sure she went to the ball in a beautiful dress and magic carriage. Other nice fairies lived in flowers and adapted to their colors. They have been the subject of many painters, particularly in Victorian times. First Fact - How to you spell the darn word?One of the reasons they are so hard to see, is that the word is so hard to spell.Yes, that is right, so hard to spell! I have seen more varieties of spelling of the word fairies than any word I have ever thought about. Throughout the site, and the whole internet you will see it spelled many different ways. And this internet factor is probably a good illustration of how language changes all the time. We were always taught that the name of something is to be capitalized. In english I am sure that it still is, but in internet language, no caps is quite acceptable. So... to make a long story short I wanted to illustrate that when we pass something on for generations... sometimes it gets a little mixed up.
HistoryI have created a page on the history of Fairys which is fascinating...but I have created a page about how to spell the Word which explains the history of the word. It is the history of the actual word - how it grew out of many languages, and why it is so darned hard to spell. So remember that when you are seeking to see them ... and when you are navigating the internet... try some with caps and some without, you might find more of what you are looking for.
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