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3 months ago
The Fairy Way By Margaret Winifred Tarrant

The Fairy Way by Margaret Winifred Tarrant


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3 months ago

Faerie Garden

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Plants to grow in your faerie Garden:

Bluebells: Faeries get called to their midnight dances by the ringing of bluebells. Bluebells represent kindness. They symbolize consecrated faery magick grounds. A potent plant for faerie magick.

Buttercup: These flowers help faeries to bring compassion to humans. Buttercups bring healing energy and understanding. 

Carnation: Faeries have a strong love of these. They can strengthen the aura and ones love life.

Clover: Attract Fae.

Cowslips: These are loved and protected by faeries. The flowers are adorred by faeries. 

Daisy: Symbolizes happiness. Useful for attracting faeries. 

Foxglove: A flower associated with faeries and mentioned in faerie folklore. Flowers attract faerie energy.(Very poisonous!)

Fern: Provides the Fae with shelter.

Holly: Holly berries are a favorite food for fairies. 

Lavender: Is used in Elf magick.

Lilac: Its scent attracts the fae.

Morning Glories: Keeps malevolent faeries at bay. 

Mushrooms and Toadstools: Loved by Fae. Circles of mushrooms are considered dangerous.

Pansy: Said to attract faeries.

Rose: Rose bushes are a wonderful way to attract fairies to your garden.  The petals  can be used fairy magic and are especially useful for love spells.

Rosemary: Useful for keeping malicious fairies away, but when burned as incense, it will attract the fae.

Tulips: Adored by faeries.

Violets: Used to attract faeries and in faerie magick.

Make sure to add wildflowers and flowers native to your area!

Things to add:

Bird houses, hummingbird feeders, bird feeders, and bird baths.

Bee homes, bee waterers, bee baths.

Fountain or fish pond

Wind chimes and bells

A place for offerings

Mirrors

Shiny stones

Faerie homes (Make sure they are made of natural materials only!)

Glass/mirrored globes

Stained glass

Leave out offerings 

Shiny beads

For the Anon who requested this :)

==Moonlight==


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3 months ago

some fae facts from lore

‘fae’ range from anything like goblins and imps to the little pixies with the wings that everyone associated with fairies to the seven-foot tall members of the royal courts. some even consider the banshee to be fae. (also trolls, gnomes, elves, djinn, dwarves, leprechauns, will-o-wisps, etc.)

some think the fae are evil, some think they are fallen angels, but most are considered to be a chaotic neutral force. some might call this ‘whimsically evil.’

honey makes them drunk.

iron poisons them, as it does many magical beings.

some were-creatures were probably just fae in disguise, since fae can assume any form.

they sometimes lure humans with music that makes them want to follow and dance. they have to dance for what feels like a year and a day but it actually only seconds.

true names of the fae have power over them. they often use aliases when dealing with non-fae.

some people are gifted with fae sight, which allows them to see the fae and also sometimes peeks into the future through their dreams.

cats hate the fae, and the fae hate them back. 

iron horseshoes over the door can act as a fae deterrent.

they sometimes kidnap human children and leave their own children or elderly behind. these are called changelings.

fae are generous with gifts, especially for polite people, but prefer gifts in return.

that being said, better to avoid accepting gifts. you probably don’t have enough to pay them back. by saying ‘thank you,’ you acknowledge that a gift was given and that you now owe something in return. being indebted to the fae = bad time

fae can’t lie, but truth and honesty aren’t always the same.

asking for a favor will cause offense. make it seem like it’s their idea to help you.

most things offend them, actually.

some fae can smell a lie. there’s no way of knowing which ones unless they tell you.

fae use ‘glamour’ to hide their appearance or habitations around humans. ‘glamour’ can be gifted for use by humans.

it’s better for fae to have half-breed children than no children at all, so relationshops with humans are fine. it just rarely works out fine for the human.


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4 months ago

Liminal Spaces in Witchcraft

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First of all, what is a liminal space? A liminal space refers to a place or time that is in a period of transition between two phases. These are usually places where reality feels altered because you are neither moving forward or backward, like a rest stop. The word liminal originates from the Latin word limens, meaning threshold. These places often give off a sense that time stands still and that you are experiencing some sort of reality shift. 

        In magic and witchcraft these spaces are considered to be the boundary between our world and the other, it is known as “the in-between”. These places are considered areas of great magic because it is believed this is where the veil is thin. These places are great for divination, spirit work, meditation and astral travel; they are ideal for hedge witchcraft.

Times & Spaces of Liminality:

crossroads manmade or natural

river, creek or lake shores/ beaches

hallway/corridor/stairwells/landings/doorways

graveyards

dawn, dusk, afternoon, midnight

valleys

forest glades

many more!

      Samhain/Halloween is considered the best time to communicate with spirits and faeries because of its liminality, it is a time of transition between autumn and winter. Irish folklore tells that this is the day faeries and ghosts come out to play because of the veil thinning. The equinoxes and sabbats like Beltane and Imbolc are also days of liminality because the time of day and night are equal (equinoxes) or it is a transition between seasons.  

       Mental states of liminality are also times of spirit communication. While being in a meditative state we are in a state of transition between our concious and sub-concious minds, this is where we sometimes experience astral projection or messages from spirits. People often experience spirit while falling asleep because this is another state of liminality. 

     In my craft I often practice in liminality in order to connect with the faerie realms.

-Moonlight 🌙


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1 year ago
Oh, No, Thumbelina. No. Don’t Ever Wish To Be Anything But What You Are.
Oh, No, Thumbelina. No. Don’t Ever Wish To Be Anything But What You Are.
Oh, No, Thumbelina. No. Don’t Ever Wish To Be Anything But What You Are.
Oh, No, Thumbelina. No. Don’t Ever Wish To Be Anything But What You Are.
Oh, No, Thumbelina. No. Don’t Ever Wish To Be Anything But What You Are.
Oh, No, Thumbelina. No. Don’t Ever Wish To Be Anything But What You Are.
Oh, No, Thumbelina. No. Don’t Ever Wish To Be Anything But What You Are.
Oh, No, Thumbelina. No. Don’t Ever Wish To Be Anything But What You Are.

Oh, no, Thumbelina. No. Don’t ever wish to be anything but what you are.


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1 year ago

The duality (Alignment) of the word fairy

The Duality (Alignment) Of The Word Fairy

Edit; this has been updated the new Chart is pinned

Please I have learned from my mistakes


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1 year ago

Reminder that fairy wasps can sometimes look like actual humanoid fairies when they hover

Tiny orange wasp, hovering, looking like a human standing still with arms at their side

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1 year ago

*puts flower in your hair* ❀ヽ꒰ ´ ᵕ ` ♡  ꒱ *puts flower in my hair* now we are fairies


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1 year ago

Gotta keep the Fae happy! Can't handle any more shenanigans.

Everyone in 2020 “I’m leaving little coins and honey in my garden for the faeries 🧚🏻‍♀️💐 🧚🏿‍♂️🥺✨”

The Faeries in question:

Everyone In 2020 “I’m Leaving Little Coins And Honey In My Garden For The Faeries 🧚🏻‍♀️💐
Everyone In 2020 “I’m Leaving Little Coins And Honey In My Garden For The Faeries 🧚🏻‍♀️💐
Everyone In 2020 “I’m Leaving Little Coins And Honey In My Garden For The Faeries 🧚🏻‍♀️💐
Everyone In 2020 “I’m Leaving Little Coins And Honey In My Garden For The Faeries 🧚🏻‍♀️💐
Everyone In 2020 “I’m Leaving Little Coins And Honey In My Garden For The Faeries 🧚🏻‍♀️💐
Everyone In 2020 “I’m Leaving Little Coins And Honey In My Garden For The Faeries 🧚🏻‍♀️💐
Everyone In 2020 “I’m Leaving Little Coins And Honey In My Garden For The Faeries 🧚🏻‍♀️💐
Everyone In 2020 “I’m Leaving Little Coins And Honey In My Garden For The Faeries 🧚🏻‍♀️💐

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8 years ago

Bloody Hell!

Bitten off more than I can chew?

I started a book club specifically so I would stop doing this … Four books on the go – that I’m listing here.  This is not counting the ones I started and stopped reading last year. Made the mistake of updating my Goodreads account.  There it was – the books listed as ‘currently reading’.  And that is only the one I am willing to show you.  A a sense of guilt, or is it defeat? whatever it is, it…

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1 month ago
A Relatively Quick Sketch For A Fey, I Wanted To Give Them A Insect Vibe, But Not Too Pronouced As Some

A relatively quick sketch for a fey, i wanted to give them a insect vibe, but not too pronouced as some of my players arent fan of insects. Also i think i'll give them a living wood prosthesis for one of their many arms. If you have any remarks to improve it, or any cool idea i'd be glad to hear them.


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1 month ago

Pretty basic question but ah well- are the faeries aliens? Or seed world organisms that originated from earth?

The faeries, slaters and formids are all aliens, however the slaters are from an ancient seedworld/colony world of a now extinct alien.


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1 month ago
Four Months Later And I’ve Finally Finished The Next Character, And The First Non-human.

Four months later and I’ve finally finished the next character, and the first non-human.


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1 month ago
The Flag Of The Faerie Revolutionary Alliance, The First Of Many Resistance And Revolutionary Movements

The flag of the Faerie Revolutionary Alliance, the first of many resistance and revolutionary movements to collaborated with the Allies during the Faerie War to overthrow the Faerie Empire (names are a work in progress, I know that’s a lot of faeries). The war hammer represents what was seen as a “people’s weapon” due to needing little metal, the tree represents the home trees many faeries build/built their civilisations in.


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4 months ago
Some Faerie Anatomy Sketches, Including A Distant Ancestor
Some Faerie Anatomy Sketches, Including A Distant Ancestor
Some Faerie Anatomy Sketches, Including A Distant Ancestor
Some Faerie Anatomy Sketches, Including A Distant Ancestor

Some faerie anatomy sketches, including a distant ancestor


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4 months ago
Faeries

Faeries

Common names in English:

Kites, gulls, imps

Binomial name:

Fantispiritus Sp. (Fated spirits)

Description:

Faeries are a genus of volant, bipedal hexapods who were the instigators of the Great War and the second alien sophont encountered by Terrans.

They posses a mineralised endoskeleton throughout their body, in addition to a mineralised cranial exoskeleton covered in a layer of organic polymers. They posses a dorsal notochord within a vertebrae-like structure, with a series of overlapping internal plates filling a role similar to the belly ribs of some earth tetrapods. The four thoracic limb bones are derived from two parallel rods of bone, leading to each limb segment possessing two long bones akin to those of the tetrapod radius, ulna, tibia and fibula, with the forelimbs possessing two segments and the hind limbs possessing three segments. Each long bone in the upper segments are connected to the a scapula-like structure with a ball and socket joint, with the two bones for the forelimbs fusing into a disc for increased rotational flexibility. Each limb possesses five fingers, with the outer rear digit bearing a wing in both the fore and hind limbs.

The head possesses a bony crest, a pair of cephalic limbs, two lower jaws fused into a single structure, and two inner jaws. The cephalic limbs posses two main limb segments and the hands possessing four segments.

After being processed in the jaws, food passes down the oesophagus either into a crop-like structure or into a gizzard before continuing on to the stomach. Meanwhile, air enters the parallel respiratory tracts either through external nostrils between the plates of the skull or through internal airways in the roof of the mouth, entering an air sac in the back of the skull before continuing into a pair of lungs within the thorax.

The faerie circulatory system bears general similarities to those of Terran vertebrates and cephalopods, with a heart adjacent to each lung and a larger central heart located between the two longs pumping their haemocyanin blood around their body.

Faeries feel little to no effect from ethanol and some other simple alcohols due to early life of their planet utilising this byproduct of their aerobic respiration as a defence mechanism against other organisms.

Faeries have a bisex system similar to that of Terran vertebrates, with males (tercels) typically being smaller and lighter built, with red skull plates, blue head and eye crests, and red and blue tail veins, whilst females (formels) are typically larger and bulkier, with orange skull plates, purple head and eye crests, and black and lilac tail veins, however there is large individual and population variation.

Between one and five leathery eggs may be laid, which hatch into fuzzy, clumsy eyasm after roughly fifteen Terran weeks. After a year of bulking up, eyasm rapidly develop into volant flaplings, loosing much of their down and becoming much more active and curious. Infancy is considered to end after a year as a flapling, gradually developing both physically and mentally until adulthood, typically considered at sixteen years old.

Ancestrally faeries lived in arboreal communities heavily dependant on a symbiotic xerophyte, with those living in more forested habitats typically living in sprawling, low density and interconnected groups, whilst those in open environments tending to live in high density, isolated communities within stands of trees.

Fantispiritus is generally considered to have evolved three to four million years ago, with the modern species having reached a global distribution by roughly half a million years ago. Shortly after venturing beyond their home solar system, an extremist faction originating on one of their home planet’s moons attempted to seize control over the other faerie factions. Whilst this control was often tenuous over much of the homeworld, it was absolute across the vast majority of faerie space. Following an expansionist policy and a number of attempted coups and civil wars, they came into contact with a lose assemblage of alien sophonts which made up the precursor to the USS. A rapid first strike was carried out that started the Great War, leading to sweeping short term advances and the threatening of multiple homeworlds before forces could be rallied against them. Shortly before the peak of this offensive, accidental contact had been made with the Terrans and formids, opening another front in the war. It has been debated amongst scholars how much this additional front contributed to the collapse of the faerie front lines, however the consensus is that between supply line issues, internal resistance and simple resource disparity, the rapid series of defeats was inevitable, followed by a hard fought offensive that ended with the invasion of the seat of government on the homeworld’s moon. During the following reconstruction period, the faeries joined the USS.


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But what if I WANT to go on a magical faerie adventure?

i worry we are losing touch with the True Meaning Of Halloween (avoiding the fairies)


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