Just a bit of Whimsey - modern fairies

[bowerbird]

As everyone is aware the urbanisation of the environment is causing loss of habitat for what were previously woodland and forest creatures. Some creatures though, have more or less made the adaptation from forest to urban environment.

What is less known is that this has also occurred to the fairyland creatures. The most outstanding example of this is the Tangle Fairy. Once a sprite that existed in brambles and briars it now inhabits cupboards and spare rooms within houses. Where it's previous function was to entangle the low lying brush of a woodland, now it spends it's time tangling spare electrical cords, string, garden hoses and in some cases whole packets of wool.

Many doubt the existance of these fairy tale creatures but to the skeptics I say - put away 4 electrical cords neatly in a dark cupboard and leave them there. When you go to get them out again they will be tangled and knotted together.

Proof positive!

Can anyone come up with anymore "displaced woodland fairy creatures"?

 

[Saolta Oiche]

Ahh so true!

There exists the Water Ripple Sprite, they used to spend their time hiding in the boles of trees that grew at the edge of lakes, ponds and puddles and silently they would slide to the water's edge and make the ripples you see, the ones that seem to have no apparent origin.

Well now, after much loss of land and global warming slowing rainfall they came indoors, having sighted the glittering shiny things that people keep.

Anyways, having come inside some stayed and those that did now hide in wooden furniture, in the dark parts of it in the corners of rooms and when nobody is around they sneak out and try and make ripples on the underside of CDs, thus the mysterios scratches you get on them.

 

[Kitera]

I've always thought that fairies and the likes do exist, and having read one of Terry Pratchett's Books, I forgot the title so forgive me, I think that us humans are too slow to see them, if that makes sense.

 

[Saolta Oiche]

That and not believing, it is said you have to believe beofore you can see. Kind of like blind faith you could say.

 

[chrispenycate]

I've always thought that fairies and the likes do exist, and having read one of Terry Pratchett's Books, I forgot the title so forgive me, I think that us humans are too slow to see them, if that makes sense.

Those aren't fairies, they're pictsies; they were chucked out of Fairie eons ago, the little troublemakers. Carpe jugulum? Wee free men?

But Pratchett also states you avoid seeing anything that you know can't be there; like a horse in the upper floor of a castle tower. So speed is not essential, just the possibility to convince oneself of its impossibility.
So babies, cats and withches con see them, the first because they haven't yet learnt that they can't, the last because they see what is there, not what ought to be there, and cats? Cats see things.

 

[Nesacat]

Yes they do.

I grew up with all the other kids here in a world peopled by genies and magic caves and ifrits and dragons and spirits galore. Now suddenly everything is banned and not good for people to even read about. Makes the world a very small and unfriendly place for those who still have that blind faith.

I'm glad that here at least people still 'see' things.

 

[Saolta Oiche]

I see dead people! No wait that was a film.

 

[SpaceShip]

Cats and dogs - the most domesticated of animals - do see faeries. Sometimes they go up to a wall or chair and stare at it for ages - are they just looking at the beauty of what they see or are they trying to tell us to open up our eyes and beliefs to the fact that they are there?

What about the tree root fairy? The ones that knot the roots that show above the ground? As our forests diminish I know they've made their homes in our gardens, knotting all manner of roots that strangle other plants. If we don't look after them, they will make mischief for us.

 

[bowerbird]

The Gnut Gnome, once responsible for ensuring that the nuts from the trees were dispersed throughout the forest has now taken to moving items such as clothes pegs and small screws around the house.

Warning! Do not allow this creature anywhere near a garage with tools in it or you will find tools scattered around not just your house but the neighbourhood and in extreme cases the houses of interstate relatives!!

 

[Leaf Face]

The love potion fairy, no longer having a midnight glade to ensnare sleeping people with drops of love potion, now hits up couch dozers and makes them fall in love with people on TV.

 

[ras'matroi]

Cats and dogs - the most domesticated of animals - do see faeries. Sometimes they go up to a wall or chair and stare at it for ages - are they just looking at the beauty of what they see or are they trying to tell us to open up our eyes and beliefs to the fact that they are there?

You are right and sometimes it is really scary.
I remember one day when I rode through the forest and had my dog with me. Suddenly the horse
and the dog stopped at exactly the same time and stared in the same direction. But there was
absolutely nothing (it was in one of the forests with tall trees so you can have a good and far seight).
What seemed weired to me was that it can't have been a sound made by an animal, human beeing or
such that I just could not hear. They had totally unusuall expressions to them
(after a while you learn to read the singns of animals as if the could tell you in word eg looking at the
ears or how the horse distributes the weight on the legs and so on ...)
but in this situatin they didn't behave 'normal'.

I got so scared and convinced them that it would be nice to put in a little sprint towards home.

 

[The Ace]

A close relative of the Knut fairy, the Gadget bag fairy. It used to hide seeds from predators, now it causes lens caps, synch cords and cable releases to become invisible at will.