A Little Pixie Dust

“Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she was all good. Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. They are, however, allowed to change, only it must be a complete change.”-Barrie, Peter Pan

 Everyone says a little magic goes a long way. For young girls, we have to rely on our little mix of faith and pixie dust to carry us off to that second star on the right. Fairies have been part of mythological folklore for centuries. Many Celtic religions like the Irish and the Scottish believe in fairies and try their best not to anger the little beauties. For this monster blog we will look at myth and our culture through films and stories on this tiny topic.

1. Avoid mushroom circles and Hawthorne trees at all cost. In the Celtic Religion, a mushroom circle or a Hawthorne tree would spell trouble for a human. They story goes like this, if you step in a mushroom circle, your are a fairies slave till the end of your life and if someone was to cut down a Hawthorne tree, then the fairies would not have a home since they live most of their lives in the Hawthorne trees. So if your in Ireland by any chance and are traveling through the highways around Ireland, you will notice a Hawthorne tree growing in the middle of the highway, the people who want it cut down cannot because of how deeply rooted it is for these trees to nest the little fairies.

2. Fairies are more than just tiny, they are moody. Tinkerbell is perhaps the most bitter fairy than all of Pixie Hollow. She gets jealous easily and she lets her temper get the best of her. When she sees Wendy kiss Peter she has to stop it from happening since Peter Pan is the boy who never wants to grow up and Tinkerbell happens to be affectionate towards Peter which Disney often implies by her spouts of temperament.

3. One does not simply say fairies do not exist. The existence of a fairy is created by the laughter of a child. Fairies may not be real, but they were once part of your imagination too. So you can't say they exist because then you kill your imagination, literally!

4. Fairies can be royal. In most fictional stories that are made for children or have been written for the fantasy lover, fairies have been positioned in royalty from Shakespeare's Titania the Fairy Queen in A Midsummer Nights Dream,to the half-sister of Arthur Pendragon, Morgan le Fey. Fairies are not just little people with wings, they are also classed the same way as a person with blue blood or regular (e.g. rich vs. poor, old vs. new, etc.)

5. Different Fairies do different jobs. The author of Peter Pan often said that there are many different fairies and they have different skills that are meant for their specific task to take care of the lands in which they live in. Some of these fairies, like the spunky Tinkerbell often make utensils and inventions for helping other fairies do their work much more efficiently. Some fairies work with animals and others work with light. The point is that each fairy plays a part in the fairy community.

 Fairies are the types of creatures who are created for the purpose of helping nature along during the seasons. Whatever the reasons and whatever the part a fairy plays in life, they still play a part in ours. I, for one, will always believe in fairies.