For her the spring wildflowers, the ephemerals, held a wild pantheistic significance, evidence that this was an enchanted land, the Faery of "a thousand ages gone".
I started with the idea that I was going to rewrite a Scottish folktale called "Kate Crackernuts," about a step-sister outwitting the faeries for the love of her much prettier step-sibling.
Oberon, asleep on the narrow couch beneath the window, was awakened by the variety of odors, and started to thank the faeries for his breakfast, until a pixie named Radish pointed and said in her thin, high voice, "He mounches!
He gathered the boy in his arms, and the boy said, "Papa, you are getting my sandwich wet," which caused some tittering among the faeries, many of whom were crying, too, now, or laughing, or kissing each other with mouths full of rare cheese.
Encourage them to leave little gifts for the faeries (small pieces of fruit, seeds, whatever they like).
An excavation of the Taigh an t-Sithiche (the "house of the faeries" – see below) in 1877 by Sands unearthed the remains of gannet, sheep, cattle and limpets amidst various stone tools.
His early poems, drawing on the faery tales of ancient Ireland, are often dismissed as whimsy.
She placed her helm on her head and called the host to war, and all the peace-loving faeries of Buena Vista Park reluctantly put on their silver mail and took up their ruby-tipped spears and made ready to stream out into the Mission to slay the woman who had stolen their mistress's child.
Angel Gabriel changed to the King of the Faeries.
In Will Tuckett's family show, the faeries are the puppets of Blind Summit Theatre, with delicate wild faces and slender or cuddly limbs.
