5 myths about the fairies

Hi to everyone! Speaking of myths about the fairies is somewhat redundant, however, we do not speak here of the myth as a hidden truth or a new perpcetion, but of the attempts to explain the survival of certain stories through logical reasoning, which is not always built on what we currently consider digestible in intellectual terms.

The Fairies are a myth, that does not mean that they could have existed. And all myth is, in short, the only way to express the inexpressible; consequently, every myth is real, since only through it can we access images and concepts that would otherwise be rigorously inaccessible.

1.-Fairies are the souls of dead children.

A fairly popular belief states that fairies are the souls of dead children who refuse to leave the world. The Banshee of Ireland, for example, are described as ruddy tiny phantasmagorias, similar to children. In England, it is believed that the Fairies are the spirit of dead children who have not been baptized. There is a curious anecdote consigned by the English poet William Blake, who claimed to have witnessed the funeral of a Fairy after one of the babies in his region died suddenly without having received the baptismal mark.

2.-Fairies are Elementals.

This myth points out that there are different levels of existence, more ethereal than human and less subtle than angelic. The philosopher and occultist Paracelsus rigorously detailed this reasoning in his treatise on the elemental spirits (Liber of Nymphis, sylphis, pygmaeis et salamandris et de caeteris spiritibus), where he states the possibility of infinite levels of existence between gross matter and the absolute spiritual purity, being the Fairies a race that lives in this imperceptible world.

3.-The Fairies are angels.

According to this myth the Fairies are "degraded" angels, that is, rebellious angels who were not condemned to a demonic existence, or who descended to earth long before that celestial conflict that exiled Satan took place.

Following this legendary reasoning, the Fairies were angels who fell in love with the Earth and abandoned their angelic essence, adapting completely to the spiritual impossibilities of their new home. According to an ancient medieval tradition, when the celestial wars ended God allowed the victorious angels to choose between remaining in heaven or experiencing a new way of life on earth. Those who chose the second are what we now call Fairies.

4.-The Fairies are pagan gods.

It is common to think that the Fairies are a poetic diminution of the old pagan deities crushed by Christianity. However, this is not so, at least in part, as evidenced by the Celtic and Nordic pre-Christian legends, where the Fairies exist long before the arrival of the Catholic faith, although with a size that has nothing to do with the diminutive .

One of the most important proponents of this theory was J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan and the irritating Tinkerbell, where he merges with myth number 5.

5.-Fairies are born from the laughter of babies.

Banal legend that indicates that all the Fairies were born of the first laugh of the first baby. As we mentioned, J.M. Barrie incorporated this idea for his stories of Peter Pan and in the novel of 1902: The Little White Bird , where the origin of the Fairies is explained in these terms:

("When the first baby laughed for the first time, his laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping about.) That was the beginning of fairies.

This prosaic story is, in reality, the infantile plunder of a medieval legend widespread in Ireland. In the original myth, the laughter of babies, that is, the first movement of innocence, breaks into a million "crystal" parts, and from there the fairies emerge.

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