Fairies
A fairy is a fantastic and ethereal creature, usually personified as a
beautiful woman, who according to tradition are protective of nature, a product
of the imagination, tradition or belief and belonging to the fabulous world of
elves, gnomes, goblins , mermaids and giants that gives color to the legends
and myths of all ancient peoples. It can cause them to develop contact with
ethereal vision according to the legends. Most of them are depicted with wings.
The Celtic legends speak of the kingdom of Aes Sidhe also known in
English as the Fairy Folk, it is important to stress that there is talk of the
Victorian conception of the Fairies, these tiny beings with butterfly wings,
which are actually pixies. The Aes Sidhe, are semi-divine beings that live
between this and the other world, with important connections with nature and
the deities, most stories portray them as people not very high, but
human-looking and tall, fair-skinned, blue eyes and black hair.
some types
of fairies are:
Lamia, fairy Basque
mythology. They have long hair that comb with gold combs that are very
precious. Their feet are webbed like a duck, except to Itxaslamiak, marine
lamias, like sirens.
Nymphs, fairies of
Greek mythology that can be:
Naiads: Nymphs that
inhabit rivers, sometimes they are daughters of these, for example, Eurydice;
Nereids: Mediterranean
sea nymphs, daughters of Nereus. They are sometimes described as women with
fish tails. Stand Amphitrite and Thetis;
Oceanids: ocean nymphs,
daughters of this. Highlights Metis (mother of Athena) and Doris (mother of the
Nereids);
Dryads: Nymphs of the
woods, sometimes associated with oaks;
Hamadryads: Nymphs tied to
a particular tree so that if it was cut, the nymph died with him;
Melíades: Nymphs of the
ash, born from the blood of Uranus (God of Heaven). They are older nymphs.
Mermaids, fairies of the
seas from various mythologies (Assyrian, Chinese, Greek, Celtic, Cantabria)
With their songs often lure sailors to their deaths on the rocks. Greek sirens
emphasize that, unlike other birds have body and head and breasts of a woman.
Almost all sirens are distinguished by having a fish tail instead of legs.
Sylphs, fairies winds;
Paracelsus is the first to mention them, and are, according to him, the air
elemental beings.
Salamanders, fire fairy.
Drinfas, Fairy Land.
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