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Faeries and Other Magic People Projects and Research Reading List Help us put together a reading list about fairies and other magic people. Please click here to let us know about your favorites. About the Fae All cultures have descriptions of other living races that share their world. Some of the other races look out for humans, some are antagonistic, but most seem somewhat separate. They interact or don't interact as it suits them. They may help us, but, just as often, they may lead us astray. In traditional cultures the fae are the workers of magic. They may be intelligent or not so bright, powerful or weak, wise or stupid. We see this in the dozens of different Celtic faeries: leprechauns, brownies, pixies, and the Tuatha de Danaan. Other cultures have their djinn and afreets, their trolls and orcs, their various spirits of trees and lakes and streams. Some of the fae show themselves as human, some appear semi-human, others appear as animals, and some are seen only as lights or heard only as sounds. They are interesting to us because they represent another intelligent and self-directed manifestation of the life force. They challenge us to look at the world in non-literal ways, to escape from a materialist view that says, when we see objective reality, that is all that there is. When we study the life force, we need to make our theories large enough to hold the fae. Featured Book Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evanz-Wentz For anyone seeking to understand the reality of the fae, this is a book you must have. In 1890 Evanz-Wentz talked to real people about their encounters with the faery-folk and recorded their stories accurately. Any explanations we propose about the life force, the Otherworld, and the fae's ability to reshape our reality must be able to explain the events described in this book. And, even better, the book is enormously entertaining. Buy from Amazon.com Other Resources A Hard to find. Some used copies may be available through Amazon.com

A Field Guide to Irish Fairies
A Witch's Guide to Fairy Folk : Reclaiming Our Working Relationship
With Invisible Helpers (Llewellyn's New Age Series).
Cherokee Little People : The Secrets and Mysteries of the Yunwi Tsunsdi.
Enchantment of the Faerie Realm : Communicate With Nature Spirits and Elementals.
Faeries.
Fairies : Real Encounters With Little People.
Fairies : The Cottingley Photographs (Theosophical Classics Series).
Fairy Spells : Seeing and Communicating With the Fairies.
Good Faeries, Bad Faeries : 2 Books in 1.
Green Witchcraft : Folk Magic, Fairy Lore & Herb Craft.
Hans Christian Andersen; the Complete Fairy Tales and Stories.
Irish Myths and Legends.
Irish Wonders : The Ghosts, Giants, Pookas, Demons, Leprechawns, Banshees, Fairies, Witches, Widows, and Other Marvels of the Emerald Isle.
Nature Spirits and Elemental Beings : Working With the Intelligence of Nature.
Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales (A C.G. Jung Foundation Book).
The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies (Flower Fairies Collection).
The Elves of Lily Hill Farm : A Partnership With Nature.
The Golden Books Treasury of Elves and Fairies : With Assorted Pixies, Mermaids, Brownies, Witches,and Leprechauns.
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales.
The Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf.
The Uses of Enchantment : The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales.

Do you believe in fairies? You may scoff at the very notion, but,
according
to Cassandra Eason, an author and psychic expert from the Isle of Wight, they
are all around us. In fact, the New Forest is positively heaving with them.

"The New Forest is a haven for nature spirits," she says. "It's full of
trees, flowers, plants and running water, which are all things that attract
fairies. The New Forest is a perfect environment for fairies to live and for
seeing fairies."

In Cassandra's new book, A Complete Guide to Fairies & Magical Beings, she
describes some of the fairylore of the Isle of Wight. For example, Puckaster
Cove on the Southern tip of the Isle of Wight is a place where the fairies
held
their revels at the full moon and on May Eve. They kept their gold in
puffballs
but guarded it jealously from mortals. One May Eve in full moonlight, the
story
goes, a man returning from a wedding was walking along the shore when he saw a
strange golden light that led him to the cove, where he came upon the fairy
feast. The man was made welcome by the fairies, who offered him food and drink
that he had never tasted before, danced for him in the moonlight to the music
of
their pipes, and sent him on his way with gold from their puffballs, saying he
should never be poor again. The man became a wealthy landowner, and many have
followed his path to Puckaster Cove on moonlit nights to pick the puffballs
that
shine golden under the moon. But by morning they have crumbled to dust.

Cassandra describes people who have described seeing fairy beings as being
"intelligent, rational people who are marked with a degree of sensitivity and
insight others lack". And there is no shame in admitting to having seen a
fairy. Vivien Greene, widow of the author Graham Greene, tells of how she and
her son had simultaneously seen a dark elf in his bedroom.

In the book Real Fairies - True Accounts of Meetings with Nature Spirits,
by
David Tame, ex-Blue Peter presenter Valerie Singleton tells of her encounters
with the fairies, and, if you look on the internet, there are any number of
people who admit to having met with the wee folk.