Fairy History

Early Fairy History shows that the belief in the existence of fairies was first known and is based on the fae of medieval Western European folklore. Fairies history often identifies a variety of other beings from other mythologies.

Fairy History shows some of the theories that speculate on the origins of these fantastic little creatures:

1. They are unbaptized souls.

2. They are souls caught up in a nether land land, not good enough to enter heaven, nor bad enough to deserve hell. Such a place is frequently referred to as limbo.

3. These creatures are the fallen angels. They were among the angels loyal to Lucifer. They were cast out of heaven with him to plunge into hell, but suddenly God stopped them in mid-flight and condemned them to remain where they were. Some were in the air, some in the earth and some in the seas and rivers. Such belief is widespread in folklore of Ireland, Scotland, and Scandinavia.

4. They are nature spirits. Somewhat analogous to the fallen-angel theory, this theory holds that they are among the many spirits that populate all things and places in the earth.

5. They are diminutive human beings. There is evidence that small-structured races populated parts of Europe and the British Isles in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, before the spread of the Celts. In Ireland, they were known as the Thuathe de Danaan.
They resided in barrows and in shelters burrowed under hills and mounds. They were hard working but shy, and, as stronger peoples invaded their land and captured their iron weaponry, they retreated to the woodlands to live a secretive life. Being pagan, they continued to worship the pagan deities. They were in union with nature and possessed keen psychic senses. Their skills and trades allowed them to lead somewhat normal lives while raising diminutive cattle and horses.

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Originally the elusive nature of these races were regarded with suspicion by larger races. Belief in them was thought to be superstitious. However, gradually more people began endowing these little people with magical characteristics. The races such as the Lapps, Picts and Romano-British-Iberian peoples, were not so small as to be unable to mingle with the Celts, Normans and Saxons. Although many became servants and serfs, others married and mixed bloodlines. Until the 13th century, having fairy blood was admired.

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Fairy History literature about these creatures was very common from the Middle Ages on. They appear in the writings of the English poet Edmund Spenser, The Dane Hans Christian Andersen, the Italians Matteo Boiardo and Ludovico Ariosto,the Frenchman Charles Perrault and many others.

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