A fairy (Latin fatum: fate, destiny) is a fantastic, ethereal creature, usually personified as a beautiful woman, who according to tradition are protective in nature, the product of imagination , tradition or belief and belonging to the fabulous world of elves, gnomes, leprechauns, mermaids and giants that gives color to the legends and mythologies of all ancient peoples. It can cause contact with them to develop as ethereal vision legends. Most of them are depicted with wings.
Celtic legends speak of the Kingdom of the Aes Sidhe (pronounced Shi You) also known in English as the Fairy Folk, and where the best translation into our language would Hadas, although it is important to note that not talking about the design Victorian of the Fairies, these tiny creatures with butterfly wings. The Aes Sidhe, are semi-divine beings who live between this and the other world, with important connections with nature and deities, most of the stories people do not represent them as high, but human-looking and tall, fair-skinned, light eyes and black hair.
In medieval stories, fairies appear to be related with incantations and spells, familiar with the power and virtues of the words, legends and herbs, which allowed them to stay young and beautiful, and accumulate great wealth.
In some books mention that the fairies make all things innocent, but their behavior can become perverse.
Several common features characterize these inhabitants of the underworld in all countries, are classified as charities and evil, human support required occasionally, their orders must be strictly adhered to on pain of dire punishment, etc.
Some of them are converted into such fairy but women who had once been human. These tales became because of a violation against nature (and that is the place where they live), being punished for it to have such an appearance, even live in the world of fairies. They may be disillusioned in various ways on specific dates of the year, as in The Night of San Juan and for example when you overlook the crystal clear waters and ask to be disenchanted. For those who became fairies or crossed the boundary between the human and the fairy, time and space changed a day or a month could be a year or a century.
The variety of work they carry out the tale is almost endless as well as singing and dancing, help the men on the field, exert their control over time to protect crops. For many months they eagerly await the arrival of spring. They also know the exact day the first flowers to sprout but prefer to keep secret.
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