Throughout history, many fairy tales and legends have been told, stories full of beauty and charm. What few know is that not everything is magic and beauty, some of the legends that are told today have, sometimes, a different story, sometimes a little dark. There are various theories of its origin, its purposes and abilities. They say that fairies come from Greek mythology, that they protected nature, were friendly and liked to socialize with human beings, but there are magical stories of fairies that we would like to tell you.
In the north of the European region they used to be called “lumens of nature”, sometime later they came to be considered mystical beings from the underworld, for the reason that they only appeared in the surroundings of the burial mounds (a mountain of earth raised on an or several tombs in the stone age), say that thanks to these humans believe in life after death. In the Middle Ages they ceased to be funeral beings, to beautiful women who were described in medieval books, where knights had affairs with them.
Another myth about the origins of fairies is based on the fact that they are the souls of dead children who do not want to say goodbye to the world. In Ireland they are known as Banshee, creatures with ghostly-looking red hair and small. In England, it is believed that those children who died and were not baptized become fairies.
On the other hand, you will encounter myths that say that fairies are angels, but not those with a beautiful appearance and impeccable clothing, they are the ones who were degraded for being arrogant and going against the law, demonic beings who were perhaps expelled from heaven much earlier than their king. What they say is that these beings fell in love with the earth and decided to divest themselves of its purity.
Among the stories of the fairies, the most beautiful origin that we have been told is expressed in the movie Tinkerbelle, as they relate at the beginning of the feature film, with the first innocent laugh of a baby a new fairy is born. However, they do not come out of a flower, but a crystal, which is broken into thousands of particles and from there fairies are born, as it is said in Peter Pan. But it does not speak of a physical crystal, but it is heavenly. Based on the origins there are millions of legends that you will not be able to believe about them, we are going to know them.
The forest fairy
As explained above, fairies are protectors of the forest, but they also encourage humans to take care of nature in general. They fulfil the wishes of those who abide by these orders as a reward. However, for those who ignore it, they say that a fairy appears and makes the person dream that he hears the sounds of the forest and is on the right track. These tiny creatures, in the distance, are like a small green butterfly, but up close, they are a lady with green wings, like in princess tales.
The ten fairies
Legend has it that there was a beautiful maiden named Elsa, she had hard-working parents with a lot of money, they did it so that her daughter never had to work in her life. For this reason, the young woman did not even know how to wash a plate, she only knew how to be happy and show her emotion by singing. Because she was such a kind-hearted woman, everyone admired her. In a short time, Elsa married a young man with great values, however, she lived very far from her father’s home.
When moving with the young man, the poor girl was surrounded by things to do at home and had no knowledge of it, her attempts were a total failure. He had a servant who helped him, but he did not know how to instruct her in any way, because of that the servant did nothing.
All this disliked the husband, one day he expressed his annoyance leaving the young woman crying, and wished he had ten little fairies to help her. Suddenly a tall and skinny old man appeared, who asked the young woman why she was sad, she explained and told him what she wanted, then the old man shook his cloak and the ten little creatures appeared. Which each one was hidden in the girl’s fingers and the old man disappeared. Since then, they helped Elsa, the servant went to work too and there was no more sadness or discomfort in the house, she lives happily with her husband.
Just as there are other magical fairy talesthat are very interesting, that’s why we invite you to keep an eye on the second part of this article, there we will learn more about these mystical beings.
ALFA