AND NO WONDER ! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light n Cor. 11:14.
Fairy, in folklore, supernormal being who. skilled in magic could become invisible, change shape and size, and bewitch human beings. The flower fairies were minute beings, and the Daoine Si&e of Ireland were as tall as men or taller and lobely and terrible in appearance.
The tendency to prettify fairies in Children's stories represents a degeneration of a serious and somewhat sinister tradition. Once feared as dangerous and powerful, they were euphemistically called "the gentle people" or "the good neighbours" to refer to them by name gave them power over the speaker
Fairies were often resorted to for their healing powers, and they in turn frequently sought human midwives. Males sometimes took human wives and a fairy woman might consent to marry a man.
One of their most dreaded habits was stealing human babies and substituting a changling, or fairy child, so that it might have the benefit of human milk. Deformed or cretinous babies were open thought to changelings and, as a result, were brutally ill treated to force the fairy mother to restore the original human child
The brownie and house boggarts attached themselves to human families as helpers. There were also nature fairies, who haunted woods, moor-lands and rivers. Such were the Scandinavian trolls and the German wood women as well as the Scottish kelpies and glaistigs and the English spirits Peg Powler and Jenny Greenteeth.
BFELIEF SPRINGS FROM LEGENDS OF PAGAN GODS AND NATURE SPIRITS WHOSE WORSHIP WAS SUPPRESSED UNDER CHRISTIANITY. THE DAOINE SIDHE IN IRELAND AND TWYLWYTH TEG IN WALES HAVE STRONG AFFINITIES WITH THE DISPLACED GODS.
In the "Fairy Dwellings of Selena Moor", an old Cornish folktale, it explicitly stated that the fairies eue the dead.
DWARF
In Germanic folklore the dwarf was a species of fairy inhabiting mountain and mine interiors.
I hey were famous as metal workers and forgers of magic swords and rings and could prophesy, become invisible and assume other forms. They helped humans in farmwork but sometimes stole grain, teased cattle, and abducted children and young girls.
In England the mine dwarf survives inlegends of the Knockers that inhabit
Cornwall and Stafford-
shire mines.
THE DEMONIC...ELVES
Elf in Germaic Mythology, diminutive being, usually in tiny human male form. ORen mischievous, elves caused diseases and evil dreams, stole children, and substituted changelings [deformed or weak elf or tairy children] for them. Sometimes elves were helpful.
GOBLIN
Goblin, in Western folklore, wandering sprite, usually mischievous but often malicious. Goblins supposedly live in grottoes but attach themselves to households where they are believed to bang upon pots and pans, snatch nightclothes off the bodies of sleeping people, move furniture at night, and flee after rappingon walls and doors.
The word goblin is derivative of the Greek kobalos ["rogue"].
LEPRECHAUN
Leprechaun, fairy in Irish folklore, who is a tiny old man often with a cocked hat and leather apron. Solitary by nature he lived in remote places and made shoes and brogues The sound of his hammering betrayed his presence. He possessed a hidden crock of gold; if captured and threatened with bodily violence, he might, if his captor kept his eyes on him reveal its hiding place. But usually the captor was tricked into glancing away, and the fairy vanished.
Thomas Keightley, in "The Fairy Mythology" l 1850], derived the word leprechaun from Lubberkin Elizabethan name for a brownie-like fairy. A later derivation is from Old Irish I,uchorpan, "little body".
MERMAIDS AND MERMEN
Mermaids and mermen appear in ancient mythologies e.g. the Chaldean sea god Ea. or Oannes. In European folklore mermaids sometimes called sirens, and mermen were natural beigns who like fairies, had magical and prophetic powers. In appearance they were human above the waist, fish below.
Mermaids and mermen were usually dangerous to man. Their gifts brought misfortune; and if offended the beings caused floods or other disasters. To see one on a voyage was an omen of shipwreck. 1 hey sometimes lured mortals to death by drowning, as Lorelei of the Rhine, or enticed young people to live with them underwater, as did the mermaid whose image is carved on a bench in the burgh of Zermr, Corr wall. *
{All information from the Britannica Encyclopadia}
'Despatch '....Comment to both articles {Fairy Faith and The Demonic Fairies}
# A synopsis from an audio in our possession re people in the deliverance ministry....ndolls were usually taken away from children before they were counselled etc. but this day because the streetchild that had been taken in was very distressed, the cabbage patch doll was allowed to reImages with her that riight the doll was later in the night found levitating in the stairwell. "
# "E.T. ". a storv about U.F.O. "fairies"? How our children are being indoctrinated. ! ! Interestingly enough, the "E.T." of the famous film "E.T. " was called a goblin by the children who cared for him The mother in "E.T " reads about belief in fairies from "Peter Pan" in one sequence The little girl crys about her belief in fairies, to save "Tinker Bell" from dying. Later, Elliot, the boy hero, crys out his belief in "E.T." and saves "E.T." from death !
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