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Unmated faerie prints by some of the leading fairy artist in the fantasy business. Marjolein Gadd, Nedda Shishegar, Rene Biertempfel, Rosie Blair, Suzanne Melody, Ulysses, and Vicki Visconti-Tilley. bR>
SHIPPING WEIGHT ON ALL PRINTS IS ONE POUND.
TRIVA on FAIRY LORE:
: Small humans. Some folklorists and anthropologists have theorized that the original faeries were members of conquered races that were sighted on rare occasions, mistaken for supernatural beings. There is some evidence small-statured races occupied part of Europe in the Bronze Age and Neolithic periods before the population by the Celts. Known at the Thuatha de Danaan in Ireland, they lived in shelters burrowed under mounds and hills. As races that are more aggressive migrated into their territories, these secretive little people retreated into the forests. However, some possibly maintained guerilla warfare against the newcomers, giving rise to the legends of Rob Roy and Robin Hood. Fallen Angels. In the lore of Scandinavia, Scotland, and Ireland, when God cast out the arrogant angels from heaven, they became the evil spirits that plague mankind, tormenting us and inflicting us with harm. The ones who fell into hell and into caves and abysses became devils and death-maidens. However, those who fell onto the earth became goblins, imps, dwarfs, tumbling’s, alps, noon-and-evening-ghosts, and will-o'-the-wisps. Those who fell into the forests became the wood-spirits who live there: the hey-men, the wild-men, the forest-men, the wild-women, and the forest-women. Finally, those who fell into the water became water spirits: water-men, mermaids, and merwomen. These angels were condemned to remain where they were, becoming the faeries of seas and rivers, the earth, and the air.
Nature spirits : in most pagan religions, supernatural forces are associated with animals, the five elements and the Goddess. Sometimes the fairies, were called Goddesses themselves. In several folk ballads the Fairy Queen is addressed as 'Queen of Heaven.' Welsh fairies were known as 'the Mother's Blessing.' Breton peasants called the fairies Godmothers.
The souls of dead pagans. Like vampires, the fairies were believed to be originally the souls of the pagan dead. Since the pagans are unbaptized, they are neither considered good enough to go to heaven nor bad enough to go to hell. They are therefore caught in a netherworld, becoming faeries.
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