A fairy is commonly described as a tiny anthropomorphic creature, most commonly associated with a young girl's appearance,has magical powers, perceived as sweet, caring and even able to make a human wish come true. Fairies are known for being part of nature, many times represented as the ones that protect the woods and florists from human pollution and deforestation, sometimes even perceived as having powers that can control a different path of nature like the four elements.
in celtic mythology, fairies are considerate, lucky symbols,small creatures that can make your wish come true,kind hearted that protect nature, able to fly, young appearances, they are immortal and never grow old,and can also be playful and tricky when they want. Fairies can be found in places whose nature is protect and sacred, they are protectors of animals,believed to know very much about magic and the secrets of the universe, for this,they are considerate use they ascentral wisdom to advice each other and human beings.
in some mythologies like the sweden,fairies were know for living in secret invisible world,they can be sweet but also mean if you disrespect them,putting human beings in century sleep.Called ‘alvorna’,they are known to be the unknown, the invisible, representing things we are not expecting on life.
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In Slavic mythology, fairies are protective creatures who help heroes in their quests, protect their homes from enemies, are kind, teach lessons of spirituality to humans, and fight against avarice. Fairies were celebrated at weddings when they asked for love and protection of the relationship, harvest festivals giving thanks for food, and at spring festivals
A fairy ring,is a circular formation of mushrooms,found in woods,is a natural effect that happens because the mushroom grows to find more food in the subterranean. There's myths that believe that a fairy ring can either take you to another world or bring you luck and heal if you go in the center of the ring.
Most knowlodge we have about Fairies we will always think about the European idea, but a fact is that fairies are mentioned in various folklores and mythologies, worldwide so,let´s take a look in the African folklores that involves fairies
Yumboes comes from the west African, the spirits from the deased, they have white,grey hair,likes to dance in the midnight and are know for stealing humans food as a prank
jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were storytellers, popularizing the tales of “Cinderella” ("Aschenputtel"), "sleeping beauty" ("Dornröschen") “little red riding hood” ("Rotkäppchen") and others. Most of the original fairy tales were way different, even creepy having sensitive topics and the villains had grotesque death but if you want to know about that, click here
the presence of fairies were mostly kind creatures either presenting as a young girl with ethereal appearance like in Pinocchio or a old lady, a motherly figure like in Cinderella. Portrait as sweet and willing to help humans with they problems, even more young woman and children, fairies were portrait in a way to teach kids that there's someone to help and protect them, and that being kind will bring kindness back to you.
Tinker Bell is a fictional character from J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelisation Peter and Wendy. She has appeared in a variety of film and television adaptations of the Peter Pan stories, in particular the 1953 animated Walt Disney picture Peter Pan. Later, the character receives its own movie. The first Tinker Bell film came out in 2008, the film tells the stories of how the fairies are born from the first laugh of a baby, and brought by the wind to the land of Pixie Hollow (that is actually part of Neverland). All fairies have a special talent such as control the water, the wind, the light,take care of animal, music and etc, Tiker Bell special talent is being fixing things,which she doesn't accept at first, comes in a journal to understand and appreciate her own talent,and recognizing that she's also special. The Tinker Bell films teach us about friendship,that everyone is important and can contribute with something. It shows us a new world,the imagination of how fairies live and the idea that they contribute to help nature.
Disney fairies had an original site,comics magazine and short films about the everyday life on pixie hollow,but unfortunately it was discontinued,the reason is that Disney Fairies was created for girls that didn't had the age to care about princesses,also it was like a test alongside Rapunzel to see if the public would like a new format in 3D movies,the first movie was in 2008 and the last one in 2015, so the same girls that loved to watch disney fairies when they were kids started to have other interest by when they grew up(author commentary: to be fair i only discovered about the last film 2 years after the release,l think even Disney did not promoted much but after watching for the first time,it really seems like a goodbye).
Tinker Bell and the Disney Fairies have so much lore that l could do a whole site for this topic(i wont), so if you interested to know more, you can find here