The History of Fairies | The Dark & Tragic Stories You Were Never Told
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2024
- Today we take a look at the history of fairies, what exactly they are and where they came from. This includes multiple regions around the world and features creatures such as Changelings, leprechauns, Pixies, Banshees, Boggarts and even angels and demons.
0:00 - Intro
2:13 - Classification of Fairies
4:20 - Changeling
7:53 - Leprechauns
10:54 - Brownies & Boggarts
12:36 - Pixies
14:20 - Banshee
16:48 - Pagan Deities & Fallen Angels
19:08 - Outro/Credits
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If anyone was wondering my favourite portrayal of creepy fairies would be in Guillermo del Toro movies, Hellboy 2 or Don't be afraid of the dark.
Wait, those creatures in DBAOTD were fairies?
Please make a video about giants from history mythology and media then and now please
Same here. I love those creepy little things
There's no sush thing as Faires
I’m writing a manuscript for my own first fantasy novel that includes fairies. I hope you’ll check it out if I ever get published.
I also find it interesting that in the original tellings of the fairies, like the elves, they didn't have wings. The wings only appeared on them in the Victorian era, when an artist was painting a human interacting with a fairy. He wanted to paint wings on to depict an otherworldly being, but didn't want to put on angel's wings, so he went with an insect's wings. The image has since remained.
True. An in the old stories most of the "fairies" like elves are of similar size and appearance of humans.
That's fascinating! what's your source?
@@Yellow-Rose I learned it back when I was doing research into mythology in the 70s an 80s. Several books a few of which I bought that are now in storage. At least 1 listed "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as the point were elves became smaller than humans. I also point out that in the old stories fey and humans often married an had offspring. Hardly possible if they were much smaller than us. A "modern" understanding of diet suggests that elves were likely slender an depending on the region shorter than us do to heredity and diet. Listing that noble elves were of the same stature as humans. If I remember the name of the books I'll list them. Don't hold your breath, that storage is in another state under my sons care since I moved to Montana. One of my favorites is "Fairies and Elves (The Enchanted World) 1984". It's an entertaining read.
I was surprised that this was not covered. He began with how we see fairies today, covered how they were seen originally, but skipped what happened in the Victorian era to create our modern concept.
I've done a lot of research on fairies and elves, too. I stumbled across a Victorian era painting on Wikipedia some years ago. I was hard-pressed to find something older that depicted winged-fairies, so this checks out.
The chapter about the changelings reminded me of this wonderful short story I read on tumblr about a woman who so desperately wanted to be a mother and had felt like she had exhausted all her options, so she summoned a fairy who gave her a magic fruit to eat that would get her pregnant if she planted the seeds in her front yard. The magic worked but there was a catch: in the winter of her daughter's first year she was replaced with changeling and her mother wanted her back she had to confront the fairy and correctly identify which of the the two infants was her "real" child. Having grown attached to her changeling daughter and having found a loophole in the fairy's instructions, the woman decides to take them both home with her and raise them as twins because to her both of them were her "real" children and she loved them both
Wow..
I loved that story :)
Whoa that does sounds like a ln awesome plot
That would make a cool movie
That's actually pretty cute-
My husbands ancestral home in Ireland is considered a fairy home. His great great grandmother was found deceased in her home after suffering a natural death. But she was found lying in the floor with a jacket covering her as if someone had lovingly comforted her in her last moments. Since she was a believer and helper of fairies it is believed they covered and comforted her in her last moments. No one is allowed to enter the home now.
I would love to one day visit the home and get exact details. Unfortunately my husband maternal side have all passed on and the stories are being lost to time.
I lived in Ireland for a while. Much life there (I could sense it) and stories about fairies.
It’s a literary essay, but Tolkien’s “On Fairy Stories” is highly recommended reading for those interested in the literature concerning Fair Folk.
I love that you called them by their respectful name
Much obliged, kind Sir 🙏
I remember the first fairy I ever heard about was the grim reaper. My dad said it was really a fairy called a dullahan and he learned about it when he was in the military. He said people used to be too afraid so the governing powers begin creating stories about them being called "headless horsemen" or "angels" to convince people they could be faught. Then he would whisper to me "but never believe it, keep your eyes open because there are worse ans scarrier things than fairys in the world." Dad had the best stories.
I read a book a breath of frost which is fiction and Amazing and i don't know if its a part of the dullahans mythology or just for the book but in it they say thow gold at one to repel because gold is a poison to there skin and could kill a dullahan i don't know if thats true but i think its interesting to think about
The Grim Reaper and Dullahan are the equivalent of the Angel Apollyon or Abaddon the destroyer from Revelation 9:11. Yep, 9'11.
😰😆 cool 😎
It is interesting that Fairy, similar to Japanese Yokai is a term that covers a large variety of mythological creatures. When we think of fairies we often think of pixies and the like but even gnomes and sometimes giants and ogres can be counted as fairies.
Yes, but the asian conception of supernatural creatures is more personal and complex than even the grecian/romantic conceptions that personified everything from the wind down to the keepers of fate and time. In the isle-european sense rhese crestures were somewhat more akin to whimsical forces or personality trapped in a human form with an ego. In the japanese and chinese cultures they were actual beings born from these forces that were used as devices to directly reflect upon humanity. In both the unfettered mind and the demons sermon on martial arts, spiritual creatures were more directly and practically used as a plot device to explore the human conditions through metaphor. As one travels eastward the same still holds true, but these parables take on a more literal emphasis that these beings were real and interacted with humans to suit their own needs, while in the asian cultures they were more personal relationships that often entered in pacts or intervened where they had seen humas straying from the path that fate set for them, even so far as to love, pity, hate, admire or covet humans.
Pokémon were based on Japanese Yokai…
@@allangibson2408 .....Kay?
@@oduinn7948 90% of them have an almost exact match in Japanese folklore. Names were changed…
@@allangibson2408 ....Okay?
There's an anime/manga called the 'Ancient Mangus Bride' that portrays fairies as mischievous and sometimes dangerous. That is when I first started to learn that fairies can have different images and interpretations
scrolling down the comment section to see if anyone had mentioned about this anime at all glad am not the only one thinking about this still need to get on watching the show though it's on my list of anime's to watch I've only know about this cause I've seen clips on UA-cam also if you know of any other supernatural series similar to this show or good yokai ones am all ears cause that's the type of anime's am interested in
Yes! Silky was a banshee and becomes a brownie after Spriggan finds her. I love how they depict fairies.
I'm irish (from Ireland) and i remember my great granny showing me how to leave offerings for them when I was little- she said they were the 'good people' and we should respect them as they were on the land before any of us. love this video, it's interesting to learn the other stories after growing up with them
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Never interrupt a faerie fort. As you will be cursed . Only enter with offerings and always ask permission before you enter. Be respectful and leave it as you find it.
@@fordism.01 💯👍🇺🇸🧚♀️🧚♂️
The problem is, the Irish stories tell of people that are not "fairies." Not the old concept nor the modern concept. That's the popular term in English yes. *In English* . The Tuatha, the si, they're not fairies. They have supernatural powers but they're not fairies. They have access to otherworlds, but they're still not fairies. The Tuatha were described as *people* with magical abilities, heck, in those stories *humans* were described as people with magical abilities. The earlier the manuscript you read (tainted as they are anyway), the stronger the differences in the way the Tuatha and si, and even the supernatural encounters and other omens and creatures are described, compared to the modern concepts. The concepts of fairies that was popularized, and the term, came from, unshockingly, English in the 13th century. The first time we even see the first recorded use of "fae", "faerie" et ctr is in the 13th century. The English fairies mixed together with native stories and got confused one for another, especially in regards to the utter travesty that is Arthurian legends and the authors that spawned them, and it's yet another imposition of English views and Englishization. There's also been a huge effort by Religions That Shall Not Be Named to demonize and make evil the Tuatha and si to keep people from telling those stories, and it was easier to do so by lumping them into one large label that had already been laid groundwork to demonize. Don't call them fairies.
Worship Jesus, not Satan.
I did a work stint for a few months up in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Part of my companies obligations were to employ a number of First Nations people. So I spent the following months with my trusty side kick who was born and raised in that area and I got to learn alot about his culture. Part of our work was to walk into deep wooded areas (typically in snow) and my companion began to tell me stories of ‘the little people’, who were alleged to be about 1ft high. He was somewhat concerned about them - I asked him if he had ever seen one and he said no, but his grandparents had. They respected the little people and didn’t interfere with them. I’ve never forgotten this Cree folklore - it was truly fascinating
Norse folklore also speaks of 'the little people.' My mom's dad used to tell her and her siblings stories of these 'people', and it scared the crap out of her. Interesting that two completely different people groups would have the same name.
Kind of love that I was raised with the older stories, definitely gave me a different perspective around the other kids who thought of fairies as Tinkerbell and Leprechauns as the dude from Lucky Charm's.
Even Tinkerbell wasn't "nice" in the original tale. She was capricious, jealous and downright murderous at times with Wendy.
I always remember that in Sleeping Beauty all the fairies were invited to witness the christening of infant beauty so that they could bestow gifts on her, but one fairy was not invited because she was wicked. She found out about the party, and was angry and offended, so then she crashed the party and doomed the baby to die on its 16th birthday, but one of the other fairies hadn't bestowed a wish yet, and so she countered the curse by saying that Sleeping Beauty would only fall asleep and not die.
Sleeping Beauty is an interesting menstrual myth. Some early versions of it are really rather unpleasant, involving a further encounter with the ogre mother-in-law. I can understand why some feminists don't like the story, but I think it is worth studying nonetheless. Trees with thorns, such as the bramble, spindle, hawthorn and blackthorn are associated with fairies
That's a movie bro
@@crow_g1639 you know the movie is based on a fairytale right?
Africans also have spirits similar to Changelings, especially amongst the Igbo and Yoruba tribes of Nigeria called Ogbanje for the Igbos and Abiku for the Yorubas. You should look into it, if you are interested. I find it fascinating that cultures with little or no interactions with one another, come up with similar myths to explain certain phenomenons, the human mind is a creative and wonderful place.....
Tribes unrelated in world? I think not, 1 is Juda, and knows it, I can't remember if the other is. YAHSHAEL/ISREAL was split arround the world for embracing satanism, and leaving worship of The Creator. They would have taken beliefs to their new lands.
Europeans have African roots that's why
@@Phoonguy We do indeed, but it's still fascinating and incredible that myths, legends and religious beliefs have endured throughout human history, as we spread from one continent all over the world; seemingly, our language has changed more than our memes!
@@Phoonguy not really, the connection was way too far back to of any effect
@@tesmith47 nonsense, everything has a root
Fortunately , I am fully aware of the original stories behind the Fair Folk. I’m even in the process of creating my own fantasy universe inspired by the folklore surrounding the Fae!
Me too, dude! Though, I shamefully confess I might bend some of the rules since I could never resist adding my own twist to the folklore. For example, instead of the Seelie Court, Seelies are basicallu faerie paladins who fight in the name of The Phoenix, the diety they worship, since Seelie can mean happy, lucky, or blessed, and the whole Seelie COURT thing has been done to death in faere YA fantasy
I’m also in the middle of writing a manuscript for my own fantasy series that features fairies and the Fae. It’s going to rock.
@@maggiesheartlove2734 Yeah. As much as I love the old stories, they aren’t exactly known for their consistency. That’s why I’m altering a few details myself.
@@ianswinford5570 that’s great! I hope it gets published!
@@alienz8641 Same here!! 👍😁
The Changeling thing wasn't just physical disabilities, but also neurodiversity. Particularly Autism/ASD, but I think can be applied to other conditions like Dyspraxia/DCD.
I lived in Scotland when I was a child and my Scottish playmates spoke about fairies and other related things. I'm Filipino and my parents shared that our family is cursed from the dwarves in the Philippines when a relative accidentally poured hot water over the dwarf. They call them Dwende.
Duende Is Spanish for Elves...
@@solyluna4545 Yes 👍
@@crisromero6564 all fairies are racist. tehre have been many race wars between fairies, goblins, trolls, gnomes and pixies.
In the English speaking Caribbean they are called Dwens
You should of never have done that to a duende
Nasu Kinoko, the writer and founder of Fate franchise, along with Takeuchi.
He wrote his version of the Fairies or Fae as akin to their original form from European aged-old lore about these mystical and supernatural creatures.
The way he described them as having orange personalities.
They don't understand human culture and society. But they can mimic them to an extent, but can't comprehend what goes in and out of how humans operate. They are far too distant within evaluating good and evil. For that matter, an instant resolution will always end up in a bloody end. Their behavior and the way they act are so utterly alien that the consequences they bring can harm not only to the humans but to themselves as well. Their personality is often described as that of a child, on the basis of having an 'innocence' approached around them. With this description, you can see how detrimental they are to us if they can't even judge what the heck they're doing is severely wrong. How they end up as trickster and mischievous beings is mostly from this.
For that reason alone, Nasu reflected the image of a race incapable of establishing itself of a civilization that cannot last for a long time as such inner turmoil and conflict rapidly set ablaze within in a matter of a short time.
The Faes are nonetheless terrifying for they moved to what they wanted without asking questions or hesitating at all.
I applaud Nasu for doing a marvelous job in his version of Fairies.
He followed the old perceived tradition and culture of these beings, instead allowing himself to be brainwashed by Disney that practically ruined the identity of Fairies true colors.
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So glad someone brought up Fate too, I love the way they are depicted in that universe. I mean, just look them up on the Type Moon wiki, that image is horrifying but so good.
yeah i was just thinking about this. i haven't done lb6 yet cuz i only play na, but holy shit after you described the fairies and whatnot, i'm very curious about what all goes down in the british lostbelt
Wrong partially: the cantabrian anjanas, a species of fairy, are quite close the the idea that disney and winx club have created of them...
year later n all that, but the British lb is released tomorrow so i can finally experience this!
I got the chills when you said that they "like to steal children." The following is a story I don't tell often, because it's so crazy. But I swear it's true.
When I was a child, maybe six or seven years old, a little green man visited me. He looked like Peter Pan, right out of the story books. He said..."Come with me little boy, come with me." He flew around the room, bouncing around. Behind him was a type of swirling vortex. I wasn't afraid, but I told the little green man that I could NOT go with him. And he just disappeared.
Now, here's the weird part...
When I told my parents about my experience, my mother chalked it up to a vivid imagination, but my father turned very pale. Dad then revealed, for the first time to anyone, that when he was a child, a little green man appeared to him as well and tried to get my Dad to come with him. He never told anyone that story before and all of us were freaked out naturally.
Object lesson in not engaging with beings of unknown origin.
@@Kayenne54 It definitely took on the friendly form of Peter Pan trying to appeal to a seven year old, but I wasn't buying it. And it also manipulated my emotions because I felt zero fear during the encounter. My father said the same thing. He wasn't afraid of this strange being in his room.
@@starbrand3726 That is super creepy.
@@Kayenne54 I think about it from time to time. Was it evil? What would have happened to me if I'd gone with him? When I was much older, my father and I talked about it at length. Comparing notes, speculating theories. We did figure out that the Green Man probably couldn't take us by force, or else it would have. Instead you had to go willingly. Makes me wonder about all those cases of missing children.
@@starbrand3726 A great puzzle for sure. Not one I'd like to personally unravel, though.
Guillermo del Toro made some fantastical movies dealing with alternative appearances and ideas of fairies as
Hellboy2(Toothferies), Pans Labyrinth, Trollhunter.
Fairies are one of my favorite mythological creatures. I'm glad you added in the banshee as well because not everyone knows that a banshee is considered a fairy.
My other favorite species of fairies are the Leanan sídhe and the Glaistig sidhe and Baobhan sith.
I never knew that, very interesting.
I prefer the Baobhan Jedi.
What about the cat sidhe ?
@@rebeccarobinson8174 These tales come mostly from Scotland. They are usually seen as white, and believe it or not, with greenish colored ears and an otherworldly stare. Folklore claims they were much like the fairy dogs, guardians and protectors of the fairies and elves themselves. Hope that helps.
Some media splits the difference, they’re the undead OF fairies.
In So Weird, a Disney series from 1999-2001 said changelings can laugh when served beef stew made in an egg shell, and banshees were once women who died in childbirth. In high school 🏫 I had a private teacher 👩🏼🏫 who was Irish. And she told me that the banshee will stand outside ur house at night when someone is about to die, but instead of screaming, she combs her hair and cries tears 😭. Really, my teacher told me that, it may go against pop-culture, but it's the og tale. Speaking of hobgoblins, house-elves in Harry Potter r based on the original tales of hobgoblins, until the spread of Christianity has changed them to b mischievous, or even torturously demonic in Hell.
I've got Irish, Welsh, and a bit of Scotch in my family tree and used to read a lot of these stories when I was young. I read that the Banshee were women who died in childbirth too.
They are demonic, what more do you need! You do not play with them, if you want to be safe and in peace!
the iron druid series of books is fantastic, alot of celtic mythology blended with other patheons made for a very good read
I was coming here to say that. I’d also add The Dresden Files and The Vesik Series.
I love the Iron Druid Chronicles. Makes your imagination fly. ❤️
Very good series. Another interesting series that deals with fairies is the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire. It is about a changeling that lives between the mortal and fey world.
Interesting how the two groups of fairies do there own things at different points of the four seasons.
Damn the changeling story is sad as hell!
Can you do a video about the spriggan?
One of my favorite depictions of fairies comes from the Mortal Instrument world. The fairies there are not so much malevolent, but absolutely mischievous. They can't lie, but they also don't tell the truth and revel in messing with humans.
They are evil, if there is some danger about to happen, but they keep quiet about it. I do not like those evil spirits in nature, period.
The Catholic Church was well aware of them. They were not doomed but they were not of Adam. Thus they were outside of salvation history and had their own separate relationship with God.
why did both of you respond with 2 separate entirely irrelevant statements
@@shadow-faye huh
@@vanessamartz7596 the whole tirade you went on about the Catholic Church has nothing to do with what this person commented
It's interesting to see how the depictions of Changelings has persisted in a negative light throughout pop culture. MLP:FiM depicted them initially as being somewhat vampiric in nature, using the love of ponies they imitate to feed themselves. They are depicted as being very insect like, with compound eyes and fly-like wings. This changed during later seasons to reflect a more distinct take, straying further away from their mythological counterparts.
I also love the depiction of the Nisse in Hilda. While the show does, as with most of its inspirations, add a bit to the basis in Scandinavian mythology (with the movie merging Trolls and Changelings), particularly with nowhere space, their prevalence in existing in every household as solitary beings sticks fairly close to their folklore counterparts.
My all-time favourite series depicting the Fey is written by Holly Black - the three books are called "Tithe", "Valiant" and "Ironside". They're YA novels, so expect some classic 90's teenage angst - but there's also a ton of very cool real-world mythology built in. The main character is a changeling, so the series really explores those themes of loyalty and debt and identity (and neglect/abuse/abandonment - not a "light read", per se, but a very rich and fascinating one).
Thank you for mentioning this. I am going to get these books to read 👍
My personal theory is this.
Originally, faeries represented forests, and throughout most of human history, forests (along with the rest of the wild) were considered "bad". They were where wild animals lived, where you could get hurt and lost, etc., etc. Mankind could "improve" on nature by cutting down all forests (as well as draining swamps, but that's another story). So, naturally, you wanted to convince kids that forests were bad things they would do well to avoid, so they were full of evil things like fae and the like that would do all sorts of horrible things to you.
Then came the Romantic Era, where the population of Europe, sick of the dirty, dark, and stifling effects of Industrialization, started pushing the idea that, actually, mankind needed to get "back to nature". Rather than something horrible and alien, the wilderness is our natural state and was refreshing and pristine and good. Forests are "good" things now. And so...faeries aren't things to fear; they're things that represent purity and the natural ("good") world and fill you with childlike wonder. Children should be eager to go and search for them and protect where they live.
Fairy: "Oh! The Wingless Ones want to be friends now? You know, after centuries of genocide. When we were somehow the bad guys for defending our territory from your imperial invasion upon multiple more-ural cultures? Well you will first have to try making friends with my steel!" **Draws a sword**
@@rachdarastrix5251 Smart move, faerie...drawing a weapon made of something that kills you to touch it. :P
@@johntumahab323 Fairy: "... I probably should have thought that through."
I think that is a good theory.
@@johntumahab323 fairy snuff ...
The fairies were visitors from another place , in the oldest descriptions there are strong similarities to alien encounters . Look it up very interesting .
Yep a place they always returned to.
Nope fairies are from a different reality just because they are mythical don't mean it's alien
@@crow_g1639 They never said that, They said the description of the places the faeries have visited are SIMILAR to alien encounters
Wow ... no one else in here reads Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden books which frequently deal with the Seelie and Unseelie courts ... more with the Unseelie as the wizard's fairy godmother is a member of the latter and quite close to the Queen ... Yes, there are tiny fairies in the mix, but most of the Court are really scary and based in the old myths and tales. Glad to continue to see that he did a lot of research before he formed the Never Never ... Great video. Oh, and they don't like being called fairies to a great extent.
Yeah, I love how JB does it. Both sides are very very very 'be careful when dealing with them... matter of fact just don't, stay very far away"
Thank you! Jim Butcher did a wonderful job in the Dresden Files with the Fae and the Never Never.
@@christinamiller7881 Does! There are five books to go, and Gates and the Fae will continue to figure in the saga. After all, he is the Winter Knight!
@@omegatired I can't wait to for more of the "outsiders". Just to see what where he takes the series.
I remember there was this TV show called “Lost Girl”. This show is all about fairies and Fae creatures. I should check it out again.
Lost Girl takes a more 'kitchen sink' approach by including youkai like Kappas and Amazon warrior women as fae (basically all supernatural creatures are considered fae), but it's still a pretty fun show.
I enjoy it. It made me curious about stories and folklore about the Fae.
Fairies didn't arrive in Finland until the 19th century and in their modern form, but they did borrow their names from the Keijungainen, who were small, rotting and smelly spirit creatures who followed the funeral processions.
I've missed listening to your voice man, I'm glad you've uploaded again and hope you're doing well.
The portrayal of faeries in the Kingkiller Chronicles books is super interesting. What's also interesting is the way the people in the story view them.
Two of my favorite depictions of fairies is in the movie "Labyrinth" (1986 Jim Henson) & "Legend" (1985 Ridley Scott).
Original Germanic (Norse) tribes also divided entities into (Elven) possibly helpful to humans or (Trolls) mostly hostile. The Elven races were not necessarily "Elves" but the term is used there as Fae is used on the Celtic isles. "Troll" denoted the darker more aggressive races, including actual trolls along with other races that were most often not friendly to humans as a whole. Really interesting video! I was really happy when you brought up the "Fairy Tales" original meaning that the stories were about these elder ethereal races and honestly not so many of the original fairy tales were light-hearted or happy tales (not many "happily ever after" endings there... but were more legends told to children to teach and warn them. The Elves were most often benevolent, unless someone didn't heed the stories and didn't behave proper around them, they could become hostile. Similarly, there are stories of a member of the troll race choosing to help someone.
Jacques Vallée has a great book called Passport to Magonia that postulates fairies were just the name given to pre-modern ufo / alien sightings. Very interesting.
Before alien sightings people had fairy sightings.
There is a book titled "Alien Impact" dated around the late 90's. That theory was proposed that aliens were modern folklore.
It is an excellent book, though it does show it's age, where the author simply tells the stories that range from ancient myths, to the crop circles of Britain, to the alien conspiracies.
You beat me to it. Vallée suspects that "aliens" are interdimensional, not extraterrestrial, and that they're hidden in our mythology. Yesterday, they were fairies; today, we explain them as space explorers. Neither is quite right. Our explanations just fit whatever most of us believe at any given time. Accounts of sightings and abductions, however, don't change much.
That's where all these ancient storys of otherworldly beings come from. They knew there were strange lights in the sky and probably were aware that beings were abducting them at night.
Hearing the description of the slough makes me think of the "Night on Bald Mountain" segment from Disney's "Fantasia", with all of the spirits flying up to Czernobog.
Quite intriguing to learn that fairies were associated, by the church, with deities & fallen angels! I'd never heard that before! Also, it's very cool to see that leprechauns are considered fairies, as well! Hmm, I'm wondering what the relationship is, if any, between fairies & sprites! Pray do tell! Excellent video, my friend!💜🌍
It makes sense that Disney brainwashes the youth to make it look appealing, cute and innocent.
And while your explaining that one (in another tangent): How did Santa Clause get elves? Was that to also because of Montgomery Wards (the retailer)?
@@peterkelley6344 actually it's my understanding that the word for gnome, elf, dwarf, in short any supernatural non human was the same word in the old language and it was basically translated as elf in the English version.
I thought leprechauns were what the Irish called the moors though.
Separate debate I suppose
The Church took quite a lot from old belives and modefied them to theyr taste.
While for the Church the Hell is a place for the sinners and the haven the place to go ; So was Hel (the deity) once the guardian of Helheim, the place where the normal souls whould go to meet with theyr families ("hel" means "concealed" or not visible for the human eye / in the underground) and only the selected few would raise up, guided by the winged (angel like) valkyries to valhall (or heaven).
So the Church offered everyone the chance to reach this place.
Hel can also be found in the old tale about "Frau Holle / Mother Hulda" wich means "gracious, friendly, sympathetic, grateful" found in hold sein, huldigen"
So the Church reversed the meaning of the underworld.
From a place for commoners to a place only for the sinners and they (the church) could guide them to a paradise.
Also.
"Frau Holle's festival is in the middle of winter, the time when humans retreat indoors from the cold. It may be of significance that the Twelve Days of Christmas were originally the Zwölften ("the Twelve"), which like the same period in the Celtic calendar were an intercalary period during which the dead were thought to roam abroad."
And the 3 Days between the 24´ and 26´Dec. are also the shortest days in the northern hemisphere, before the sun begins to rise and the days become longer again.
(A date also adepted by the church to signify the importance of jesus, that he ist the son of god / the sun / the one)
Demons didn´t existed in the first place, because there where only fallen or rebellion angels.
Deamons are the pagan spirits, deitys and folklore inspired creatures, ashamed and forbidden by the church, to make sure that they are dangerous creatures.
Personally I like the idea that the banshee myth was propagated by parents who didn't want their children sneaking out and catching them in the act
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the visuals here? Stunning 👏🏼
Great content too
Agreed 👍🤩😍
I wonder how many children with mental disorders suffered because of the changeling myth?
Many horrible cases of abuse against women and child. The last case was mentioned in this video
@@Bildgesmythe Scary that people could get away with doing such terrible things by saying, "A fairy did it!"
its likely the changeling myth was created for that very purpose.
@@RaptorNX01 Some things about changelings do sound like autism.
The spiderwick chronicles has good depictions of the brownie/bogart and other faeries and the series True Blood shows faeries in both a beautiful human form and their "true" form which is more like a goblin of sorts. The spiderwick chronicles is a great family movie because it has child themes with some adult humor. True Blood has vampires, skinwalkers, shape shifters, faeries, and werewolves in it but is for mature audiences. I recommend both.
Glad to see you guys again. Only been a month but feels longer.
Oh man, in regards to the Fairy Media I grew up with and still consume, FAR too much to name. I always fondly remember growing up with them, from Tinkerbell and The Flower Fairy Books, Animation, even Barbie at some point, right down to the old folk stories in this big yellow book I had featuring stories from all over the world to where even my old childhood bedroom wall was themed after a Seelie Court style Fairy Garden. I always fondly remember playing out in my yard and in the playground, waiting to see one and believing the big hole in the Apricot tree we had in my childhood home was a fairy home so I always used to leave little gifts and trinkets made of various things I found in the yard there for them. Same with this absolutely gigantic tree in the front yard, the fairy tree I always used to call it, and when I was little my mom and I always used to decorate that tree in wind chimes and crystals strung up on fishing line to make their supposed home just all the more prettier for them. I always used to call vanilla milk "fairy milk", especially since 5 year old me saw the classic yellow flower with the two brown sticks of vanilla on the carton and thought it was actually made of flowers and since it was made of flowers, surely that was the type of milk fairies drunk.
I never knew much about how they really were beyond that until my taste for folklore and mythology grew, but they've always had this distinctive place in my heart. I'd even go as far as to say they were my very first special interest. And my love for the fae folk still stand to this very day, especially once I found out about my Irish and Scottish roots and started looking more and more into those old stories that I never knew about purely because of the distance between me and my cousins from that end of the world. I've since grown out all those old beliefs, and I no longer see them as just Tinkerbell or the gorgeous illustrations and colouring pages of my childhood books and more so a very fascinating blend of the Seelie and Unseelie Court. Sort of the personification of Nature's beauty and kindness but also ever unbrittled cruelty and apathy. So on top of a love it also turned into a sense of reverence. Though I fondly remember where it all started. I still use fae folk from both the Seelie and Unseelie Court as inspiration in my storytelling to this very day on top of consuming pretty any new information I can get my hands on of them. Plus I'm fondly planning on recreating our fairy tree out in the front yard again with my mom for old time sake. Sure miniature me would be proud to learn I never let my love for them die and if anything let it grew with age.
That was beautifully written, it could have been me. I lost my beloved book but I will recommend it, It's full of gorgeously illustrated fairies. It's called A Child's Treasury of Poetry.
@@tanyatmarie2263 Why thank you, I'll definitely see if I can find it here, especially since it sounds like a lovely book to share with my own children one day.
@@BohemianDeer you're quite welcome!
I feel like the Disney film "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" did a great deal to reinforce the modern perception of the banshee as a malevolent entity.
One of my favorite portrayals of creepy fairies is from Torchwood. The fairies chose a little girl who would eventually join them and become one of them. While the girl was still human the faries protected her. There was a pedophile in the neighborhood that tried to kidnap the girl and he was found dead the next day with flower pettals stuck in his throat. The fairies were not evil per se, but anyone that tried to harm the girl or prevent her from leaving to go to the fairy world they would kill. The fairies even attacked the girl's parents because they didn't want to lose their child. The creepiest part to me actually was the little girl herself! She knew that the fairies were protecting her and she wanted to go with them.
Well, by celtic sources some believes, that the fairies originates about the Bronze Age - their way of thinking is far different, than one of a modern person, even if we doesn't add the difference of lifespan to it. Overall, other's lives only concerns them to the point, how valuable they to them. If their worth goes from the 'zero' (meaning 'i doesn' care, if they are living or not) to the 'negative' level ('They cause me more problem, than benefit'), they will kill it without any remorse (except, if they are necessary for something - then their life will be spared in the moment, but they find other ways to punish them).
For the girl, i doesn't know, what her background was, but there is a few boons as well, turning into a fey (longer life and some other extra abilities), so if it didn't had any strong and positive feeling toward it's home, it can be understandable...
What is Torchwood ? Is that a movie ?
Glad to see you back and you're just in time! Need this content for my book.😁😁
You’re writing a book about the Fair Folk as well?
I like that some of us have a universal experience with seeing the weirdest, unexplainable situations no matter what religion you grew up with. We should be aware of such creatures anyways, we're not alone.
Some stupid human: "Aww, I got a letter saying I am about to be visited by a fairy."
A Vampire Shows Up.
Some Stupid Human: "Wait, what?"
I don't know if it is still in print, but my absolute work of Faeries has toe be "Faeries' by Brian Froud and Alan Lee.
I think they even had a little 30 minute animated special by the same name in 1981.
Yah! Bedtime listening. Hope this doesn't give me nightmares.
I’m writing an urban fantasy series about Celtic Mythology and the Fae play a big part in this. This video helps a lot for inspiration.
Awesome🧚🧚🧚🧚🧚
The seelie court and unseelie are in D&D in the Feywild. I am guessing a lot of things in this video will be in D&D as that game pulls from cultures all over the world.
They're also in "Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning", as the Court of Summer and the Court of Winter, clearly based on the Seelie and Unseelie courts.
Tell me you are Gen Z and have only played 5E without saying you are Gen Z and have only played 5E.
Lol like “hey did you know seelie and unseelie court are in the white wolf changeling rpg game???”
Like, fucking duh…
@@LB-yg2br yes, I have only played 5E, but some of us don’t have the money or time or anyone to play with. You don’t need to be an A hole about it.
Crazy how in mexican culture the fairies are adas and the elves being duendes chanekes.but crazy how since I was little my dad used to tell us about duendes and being mexican we have the supernatural in us from birth but from ghost stories to actual happenings. But from what they also say is that duendes aka the elves leprechauns of the sort were basically little kids that died without being baptized and crazy how in the beginning you mentioned the fairies being some sort of dead young soul . Now I get the Pete pan early story
I am a huge fan of the way Cassandra Clare represent the Fair folk in the Mortal instruments book series as being the offspring of Angels and Demons. This makes incredibly grey and even the Seelie Court couldn't be completely trusted.
As in Irish pagan myself - I am glad you got mostly everything correct we call them The Sidhe also it's the festival of Samhain. Other than them 2 small changes - great job with the information in this video 👍🏻 🥃 Sláinte
I know my ancestors came from ireland I was raised Christian but am not anymore I guess I'm more of a pagan witch anyhow I liked your comment
@@mysmirandam.6618 Thanks. You can always go to the website on genealogical office of Ireland to know for sure. And you can believe in multiple things or just say Irish Pagan you don't have to say witch. Here are some authentic & genuine Irish UA-cam channels you might like Lora O'Brien, Scéalaí Beag A Dagda Bard, The Irish Pagan School, Morgan Daimler & Kianuka's Celtic Tales.
the "wee folk" saol fada
Pagans are those who have not had opportunity to hear of the one true God and are thus allowed to hear after death and choose. Fallen are those raised on the Word. Unfortunately they are not given a second choice but face hell.
@@vanessamartz7596 I appreciate your comment & people can believe in multiple things you know that right. The difference is pagans ( especially Irish ) don't force their religious beliefs on other people like so many other religions did throughout history. Do me a favor from now on keep an open mind of all things and don't limit yourself you'll be a better person for it. Enjoy the rest of your day 🥃 Sláinte
I don't know what to comment, but I enjoyed your video, so I leave a comment!
Great video, lots of good research, and I like how you bring up historical context and how things changed over time.
My favorite depiction of fairies is probably from The Desden Files, a series of novels written by Jim Butcher. I'd go into describing them myself but I can be pretty long winded and honestly it's probably better that you check them out for yourself. While not explicitly About the Fae they are integral to the setting and much of the plot involves them directly so it doesn't take long to get a solid grasp of the things that make them unique, although there's plenty of core details that feel familiar and will remind you of others.
I missed your content!! It’s good to see you’re back! Keep up the good work!! 🙂
This really connected with me. I'm Irish and as a kid in primary school we learned the first stories in school. We grew up with a fear of the banshee from stories passed on. That first story brought me back to my child hood. Irish myths and history makes Ireland a really interesting country
But the banshee is not a scary thing.
@@ahtaystamcauther9376 The day you see one, she's scary. Not evil or anything, but still terrifying
Much respect and love to Ireland and it's people
The PSVR game Déraciné by From Software has fairies based on Scottish folklore... It's an incredibly dark take on fairies and they're quite startling in appearance.
Did you enjoy the game though? I watched somebody play it on UA-cam and I haven’t been that bored in ages ☠️
@@Bigiboi2006 That's a very fair point. I liked the story, but at times it felt like I was trudging through just to find out what happens. Definitely rough compared to VR games put out now, or by more experienced teams with VR.
Thank you for describing many of the creatures that fall under the category of Fae or fairy. I had several incidents where different kinds of fairies or fae existed within our lives.
As someone who is irish and a practicing pagan (who's family also has ties to the seelie fairfolk,) seeing this video giving great detail on the fae brings me nothing but curiosity and joy! 10000000/10 awesome video! Blessed be! 😊
Hi, as a practicing pagan kindly tell me about some of the rituals or rites you work
@@judbakilam she’s ignoring you
@@Digitalhdwmn Oh no! How tragic. I really wanted to talk to the fairies
@@judbakilam You don't want to
Very interesting watch! As usual... Love these subjects.
Thanks for all the effort. It's much appreciated. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Quite mischievous and sometimes dangerous, does anyone ever think about Dark fairies?
Yes, there's many Dark Faeiries
@@deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344
I learned about the drow already
@@acemarvel1564 They aren't the only ones. There's so many different types. Fear dearg, fear dorcha, drow (Scots word), sluagh, the Unseelie Court ect ect. There's too many
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I know
Thank you for uploading. So interesting, and so many versions of similar beings around the world, and through history. For example, the descriptions of brownies and hobgoblins are nearly identical to a slavic mythological creature called the "Domovoi".
Brownies, Elves , Gnomes, Liannan Si , and Phooka, are all connected to Faun/Satyrs as well :)
Bruh, you have the BEST channel. Hands down, PERIOD. So informative. I love your delivery, I love how clear and complex the stories are. I've studied a lot of these stories, but you continue to provide info I didn't know. THANK YOU
I loved the leprechauns in "Darby O'gill and the Little People," now practically forgotten. It was played several times a year on tv, and that's how I pictured them as a child. It also had a Banshee coming to announce or warn about a death, and it TERRIFIED me. I always cried when Darby got into the death carriage, but it had a happy ending after that part.
In Romania we have similar creatures called "Ielele". They are described as beautiful young women, very seductive, who appear only during the night in the forests or near the rivers. They usually dance and sing in circles, and if you see one, you might die. Boo 👻😂
Romania has many other supernatural creatures like vampiri, strigoi, capcauni, sanziene or ursitoare. I recommend you to look it up.
Great channel! 👏🏻
Thanks baby
I actually enjoy the Fablehaven series for it's depiction of many mythical creatures.
Your videos are always the best. You get great sources and know how to capture and keep our attention.
That's really nice and would love to see more fey creatures explained here!
“The Secret of Roan Inish” is a fantastic film about the selkie. It’s a beautiful movie with no conflict and a whole lotta heart. My kids loved it, too. Thought I’d share, while on the topic of Ireland etc.
Yes, The Secret of Roan Inish is a great movie. What a story/movie should be. No sex scenes, cursing, or violence. Just a great story.
What age group would you recommend this movie for?
@@pryorbishop2957 Anyone realy, who is old enough to pay attention to the television.
I saw it when I was in my 40s, loved it. Although it's basically great for kids too.
You would have to have mental issues, or be a psychopath of some sort to not like the movie.
@Pryor Bishop
My kids were 6 and 8 when they watched it. They both enjoyed it! There are maybe some “intense” scenes (but not that bad, compared to some kid movies)! It’s really a quite beautiful movie, and shows a simple life in a quieter time.
Thanks maybe my son will like it , he’s 11, I’ll look out for it🍀
I loved lost girl, and hell boy 2. I love Meredith Gentry Novels too (Laurel K. Hamilton) with modern day fae as well as changeling the gathering faery lore is so interesting and found in so many cultures all over
"Ow! It bit me!"
"Heh, well what did you expect fairies to do?"
"I thought they did nice things... Like granting wishes."
"Huh, shows what you know, don't it?"
I was bit by 1 getting out of my mother's truck... They're very serious about their way of living n home n any disruption by any1 even if not that day on the 3rd day I got bit n had 2 go back n make amends n offering...
First video to watch and I'm excited to see the rest. Amazingly told and with such researched detail I'm in awe
My favorite has to be Supernatural because its my favorite thing in existence I'm obsessed with that show and love how it explained that UFO abductions are actually Fairies abducting people.
Also a couple honorable mentions firstly True Blood had the cool dynamic of Vampires and Fairies being enemies because Fairy blood is the best tasting to Vampires.
And 2nd as a kid I was obsessed with Spiderwick Chronicles me and my Little Brother watched that movie on repeat several times everyday.
I was reading the book THE CRUEL PRINCE where it was everything about fairy type creatures and this video helped me to figure out more about fairies
I instantly had to think about pan's labyrinth...great video :D
Could you IMAGINE if Spiderwick Chronicles was remade into a tv show and followed the books a liiiittle bit more, ohmygod
The Field Guide was my FAVOURITE book growing up, the illustrations of all the different types of faeries, that come from real folklore, were beautiful 😭
In Finland we have stories of Tonttu ("Gnomes") that live around us. They are most commonly know for having House Gnomes and Sauna Gnomes, Domesticated ones. They help taking care of house or sauna, protecting them from fire and from misfortune. You kept them happy by allowing them to live there and keeping place clean. While they do help with cleaning, if you leave it all to Gnome it could get mad and.... well your homes were made mostly by flammable wood and other furniture.
To keep Sauna Gnome happy, when your family was done there and were leaving, last one would throw one last water to Kiuas or hot stones so Sauna Tonttu could come to enjoy the steam.
It would not surprise me to think that there were Evil Gnomes who would kidnap mean children away who did not listen to their parents.
While i don't know what other Gnome tales there were, i think Germanic Folktales of Forest Gnomes would had also existed here and how Gnome would look like. Mostly these days Finnish Gnomes are known to be helping Santa Claus, although i don't know for sure if old Gnomes had elfish ears or if its combining with American version of Claus helpers, elfs.
They're everywhere and I'm trying to find out why.
As somebody who is Irish and grew up with the stories of banshees I feel I have something to add here
For starters, one thing left out of this video is how banshees screams/cries are said to sound like cats
Yeno that weird noise cats make at eachother when fighting? Well that’s what they’re described as sounding like
Which makes sense seeing as it explains a lot of the stories
Secondly, my mother has a story from when she was a teenager, it’s about how one night, I think when she was 14 years old, she was still awake in bed and swears she could hear banshees, of course the next morning she woke to find out her father had died in his sleep
Again, very likely it was just cats and a sad coincidence
Thank you so much for this beautiful presentation. It is very comprehensive.
I enjoyed this one.
Thorough enjoyed the music during end credits, as well.
Hey, hey you guys are back
I like the version of fairies shown in the doctor who universe. Their in an episode of torchwood and are quite creepy.
I think Brian Fraud has come extremely close to capturing all the good and bad in fae folklore! Love him!!
Excellent video! Thank you!
Lived in a weird house for 15 years. A blue fairy about 12 inches tall would sometimes dance on my chest when I went to bed. One time I tried to catch it by throwing my blanket fold over her. She bit me then rendered me unconscious. I never tried that again. Many supernatural events occurred in this place. Interdimentional doorway was in evidence.
You lucky one.I always wanted to meet something unusual and believe in fairy but unfortunately never see something like you did.
Love this channel so much!!🤍🤍Do you think you could do a video explaining love stories between human and mythology?
YESS!! I would love to see that
Please please do this
You mean like humans falling in love with mythical creatures and stuff like this?
@@alltheabove2632 YESSSSS. I’m currently studying creatures of the such. I love learning about them.
@@stardome3843 Definitely sounds like a great video idea
Thank you so much for sharing this. Very enjoyable. I have seen the faeries and I know they truly exist.
There’s a quite plausible theory that the “vampires” in the Twilight series are actually Irish blood drinking fae - the Dearg Due (red blood suckers). They are certainly nothing like traditional vampires.
The Fallen Angels were like the dark fey in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. Maleficent might be a fallen angel. 🧚🏻♀️🧚🏼🧚🏻♂️🧌😈👿
Outstanding! May I recommend the stories, myths, legends and folktales on the Northworthy Sagas and Stories channel here on UA-cam.
The Dresden Files book series does a great job bringing the Fae and their Courts to the modern era
Oscar Wilde's father was a surgeon in Ireland and would ask his poorer patients to tell him of any folklore/experiences etc they had. He collected them avidly for decades and they were printed as follows :
Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland (1888) and Ancient Cures, Charms and Usages of Ireland (1890)
Great video, thank you! J'revien...
I''m surprised that Changelings are children of Fae & Elves and that Elf-kind aren't counted as a Fairy or Sprite.
And that Changeling log story sounds similar to Halo, with Dr. Halsey (and the UNSC, unofficially) swapping out healthy human children from hundreds of families to test in the Spartan III program. She would find the kids, have the soldiers drug and snatch them from their homes, then replace them with a seemingly healthy clone. Which would then grow old sick and die over a relatively short time from any number of ailments because they were designed to eventually expire, they'd even have the original kids' memories. While the real kids would be trained, tested and eventually implanted with the components that would make the next stage of chemically, cybernetically and surgically augmentating them to become super soldiers.
its even worse then all that. they didn't even bother to put in the effort of designing them to expire. the "I Love Bees" radio play made to market Halo 2 revealed that the clones they used to replace the children with were just "Flash clones", clone made quickly and cheaply with little effort. they looked like the kids, but were basically vegetables. couldn't walk, couldn't talk, and would just degrade over the course of a year till their bodies eventually stopped working.
One of the characters talks about his gifted sister who one day has an "accident", and his family spent the next year watching her slowly die and none of the doctors could do anything about it. its what makes the character decide to become a doctor himself. he eventually learns they never brought his sister home from the hospital, that she had been kidnapped by ONI and put into the spartan program and replaced with one of those flash clones.
what makes it worse is that she never even became a spartan. she was mentally gifted, but not as much physically. she "washed out" as it were. when they realized she wasn't good enough they killed her, then took her mind and turned it into an advanced AI (like cortana).
@@RaptorNX01 See now that's an issue on Halo, because instead of doing all of that they could've just wiped her memories and changed her face or something. They're already spending Trillions of Dollars worth of money just to build FTL Engines, Space Ships and Stations that can barely blow up any Covenant Frigates. They might as well throw in a couple more Million to not dispose of a possibly valuable asset. Plus after the initial failures of the Spartan projects they should've started to realize that those kids who didn't die going through it, could've been used for something else, like being a Marine or ODST after they might recover.
Darby O'Gill and the Little People is one of the greatest fairy films you will ever see.
Love it!
I need to watch it 😩
Brian Froud art is what brought me to the love of Faerie lore. Good faeries/bad faeries will always hold a special place in my heart
Excellent video. Thank you.