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Introduction: Where do faeries come from?

Pack Your Trunk: It’s a Truncated Trip

Hoo-ray for Hollywood: Modern faeries

Jumping Across the Pond: Norse, Gaelic, & Celtic tradition

Turn right: Travelling the Silk Road

Monkey Man: Lots of ‘Em!

Splitting Roads: Off to Philippines, Polynesia, and Japan

Back to America: Bearing Straight for Bering Strait

Eilis Flynn www.eilisflynn.com

Introducing Sonika

Jacquie Rogers www.jacquierogers.com

Faery Special Romances

Building new worlds, one faery at a time



Ankou

Ankou is a skeleton-

ghost who travels at

night to collect the souls

of the recently departed.

Bean Sidhe

“Woman of the Hills”

who shrieks a warning

when a family member

is about to die.

Dana o’Shee

Beautiful, ever young—

the nobles of the faery

court, loving dance,

music, and jewels.

Doppelgänger

The image in the win-

dow or mirror, the em-

bodiment of the

viewer’s soul.

Dragon

Fire-breathing lizard

with wings and scales.

Often a hoarder of re-

cious stones

Dryad

Tree-dwelling spirits of

the Druids who gave

them the passage to the

astral plane.

Elf

German and Norse:

originally the spirits of

the dead who brought

fertility.

Giant

Often the loser in crea-

tion myths. Usually

portrayed as evil, but

not always.

From Hollywood, we skip to Europe

and meet the Faeries from the British

Isles, Northern and Central Europe.



Hobgoblin

Malevolent elf who

enforces moral code

upon humans, although

is amoral himself.

Goblin

Grotesque variety of

evil but playful gnomes.

Nomadic, but can be

found in rocks & trees.

Lady of the Lake

Lives in Dosmary Pool,

Cornwall. She gave Ex-

calibur to Arthur, and

he returned it to her.

Leanansidhe

Vampire faery.

An inspiration to poets,

but then sucks their

blood dry.

The Lorelei

(Also called Mary

Player or Siren)

Beautiful faery sings

sailors to their deaths.

Phooka

Run in packs & will

harm children & cattle.

Will destroy crops after

Samhain.

Merpeople

Half human, half fish.

Friendly & have saved

drowning sailors. Anger

if home is polluted

Leprechaun

Drunken shoemakers

who guard pots of gold,

cauldrons from ancient

Crone lore.

Mistletoe placed in the

cradle protects a child

from being stolen by

fairies and replaced with

changelings.

Harebell makes the

invisible become

visible. Eating the

flowers will allow you

to see faeries.



Succubus

Female faery who sexu-

ally attacks men. A

bluebell under the bed

might ward them off.

Pixies

Small faeries, closest to

Tinkerbell. They can be

somewhat capricious.

Pixie dust in footsteps.

Troll

Big, ugly, & mean.

Turn to stone if exposed

to sunlight, so stay in

caves until night.

The Vila

Mistress of the Forest.

So beautiful, when a

human man sees her he

yearns for her forever.

Wichtln (Wight)

Small, mischievous, &

mean, it’s said they

never sleep. They adopt

a human home to guard.

Will-o'-the-Wisp

Faery lights seen near

brush, marshes, or hills.

Some say they are car-

ried by faery revelers.

Incubus

Male faery who sexu-

ally attacks women. A

peony under the bed is

some protection.

The Seelie and Unseelie Courts

Edain McCoy says this faery form might have

been borrowed from old Indian legends about

god-like air spirits of both good and evil who

engaged in great battles of the heavens.

Common belief is

that faeries cannot

start fires; therefore,

they must steal or

borrow it from

humans.

Faeries, especially

the Sidhe, cannot

tolerate the presence

of metals. But

dwarfs are expert

metalworkers.

And now Eilis will

take you south and

east, over the Silk

Road.

I’ll meet you in

Alaska!



The djinn, a familiar creature for a lot of us, is a

common figure in Middle Eastern folklore.

Peri of Persia, a Persian fairy, are

said to be descended from fallen

angels who have been denied

paradise until they have done

penance.

Siren

Beautiful women’s

heads with bird bodies

who lured sailors to

their deaths.

Nymph

Minor Greek deities, daughters of Zeus

or other gods. Very sexual, the source of

the modern term nymphomaniac.

Satyr

Half– goat and half-human. They

serve Dionysus, chase nymphs

mostly, and are usually portrayed

with a huge penis.

Apis

Egyptian bull

god.

Manifestation

of the pharaoh

with strength

of heart &

virility.



Hanuman, the Hindu

monkey god, was elevated

to god status when he

sided with Rama in a war.

Hanuman appears in

another form later on

along the Silk Road.

Ganesha, the Hindu ele-

phant god, is missing a

tusk as you can see here,

because he uses it as a pen.

Saraswati is the Hindu goddess of

knowledge, music and the arts. She

with goddesses Lakshmi and Parvati

or Durga, forms the Tridevi ("three

goddesses"), who are consorts of the

male trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and

Shiva respectively.

Left: The yaksha, a woodland and mountain fairy,

is often found in Hindu and Buddhist mythology.

Sometimes a pleasant creature and sometimes not,

it appears in folklore both aiding humans and

attempting to eat them. This is the palden lhamo,

the protectress of the Dalai Lama.

Yakasha at Kushavarta



Mogwai may be familiar to you. It

means monster in a Chinese dialect,

so that was a joke on someone's part

in the movie Gremlins.

Tengu is usually known as a

crow-goblin, but what you

see here is a variation -- the

long nose you see here is also

used as a depiction of the

white man.

Hachiman is the Japanese

equivalent of Hanuman, the

Hindu monkey god.

For whatever reason, the

monkey god was translated

to a human in Japanese lore.

But there are a lot of mon-

keys in the Japanese islands.

Below: a familiar face for those who watch anime: Inuyasha, a dog-demon.

Left: Fujin

a wind-god, is

one of the kami-

kaze in Japa-

nese lore.

You may recognize these guys;

See no evil, speak no evil, hear no

evil. These monkeys were carved

into a famous shrine outside Tokyo

called Nikko. In the continuation

of the Silk Road, these monkeys

were originally from India, and

made their way to Japan.

The kappa is a water demon -- not

a friendly creature at all. It lures

humans into rivers and lakes and

drowns.

Right: The phoenix and

the dragon are important

to Chinese mythology.

The dragon dance is per-

formed every year for the

Chinese New Year.



Left: Mandurugo in Filipino/

Malay folklore is unpleasant

spirit, usually considered a

vampire or an incubus-like

creature.

Here's a Malay spirit

depiction with a

Muslim and Hindu influence.

Menehunas live in the tropical

forests and can be very helpful to

lost humans if in the right mood.

Like Leprechauns, they guard a

pot of treasure. They are very old,

maybe even as old as creation.

Indonesian Sprit-Chaser

Pele

Hawaiian goddess of fire,

lightning, dance, volca-

noes, and violence. She

lives in Halema’uma’u, the

crater of Mauna Loa.



Bokwus

Dangerous forest spirit

who lures humans into

rivers or lakes and are

never seen again.

Nagumwasuck

Guardian spirits of the

Passamaquoddy . Small

& ugly but helpful and

create good luck.

Thunderbird

A powerful spirit who

flashed lighning from

his beak and thunder

from his wings.

Orca

Sea Wolf—Guardian of

Cosmic Memory and

Keeper of the Ocean.



Eilis Flynn Eilis Flynn has spent a large

chunk of her life working on

Wall Street, so why should

she write fiction that's based in

reality? She spends her days

aware that there is a reality

beyond what we can see and

tells stories about it for

Cerridwen Press.

Jacquie Rogers Jacquie Rogers is a former

software designer, campaign

manager, and cow milker, but

always an avid reader. Her de-

but, Faery Special Romances,

is a collection of 10 stories all

featuring faeries. Coming up:

Down Home Ever Lovin’

Mule Blues.

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