Not to be confused with Changeling Fantasy, which is a type of Cinderella Plot.Īll of the above aside, it's entirely possible for the fairies to be as diverse in their beliefs and actions as humans. See also Changeling Tale, a specific subtrope having to do with fairy abduction, doppelgangers, and the like. Compare and contrast Fairy Companion, Fairy Devilmother (essentially the Evil Counterpart to the Fairy Godmother), Mage Species, Our Elves Are Different, Our Fairies Are Different, Our Goblins Are Different, Our Pixies Are Different, Our Mermaids Are Different, Nature Spirit and All Trolls Are Different. For more on this interpretation of this trope, see Alien Fair Folk.įrequently found in concert with Grimmification, as the original folklore of the darker breeds of fairies needs little exaggeration. Periodically, there are tales of those who have dealt with them and benefited, but for the most part, mundane people are merely their playthings. In both cases, you have creatures who are ineffable and don't understand humanity, who randomly abduct humans, play with them, and return them with Time Loss and occasionally strange powers/afflictions. In a manner of speaking, the old tales of fairies have been replaced with aliens. They are usually vulnerable to Cold Iron, though not always (the Irish "Dullahan" are weak to gold).įor more information, including much of what used to be this page's description, please see the Analysis tab. The Fair Folk almost always live in the Land of Faerie, often have Faerie Courts, and may be depicted as an Inhumanly Beautiful Race.
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At worst, they're like serial killers with magic: otherworldly horrors who kidnap humans for explicit use as playthings to torment, assault, rape, maim, or eat - or sometimes to find even worse, very abstract things to do to them (some stories in folklore get dark). Often, they would interact with humans with no thought to the consequences of their actions, or they would be tricksters that deliberately delighted in the utter mess they made of mortal lives (such as the classic character Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream). Elves didn't make children toys or live deep in forests with no interaction with mortals. The fairies of old weren't cute little bewinged pixies who fluttered happily around humans. Modern society has lived with the Disneyfied version of fairies for so long the Fairy Godmothers of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, Tinker Bell in Peter Pan that it seems hard to imagine that some would consider fairies evil.
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