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My favorite thing about being The Fairy Boy is when people find out and they're all, "Oh fairies?"

And I get the pure joy of being like, "No. Fairies."

#I mean the folklorically accurate ones #you're thinking of the ones popularized by the Cottingley Fairy Hoax #I'm talking about the real ones #the each-uisge #gwyn ap nudd #the cwn annwfn #bwbachoid #gancanach #nuckleavee (do NOT say it's name out loud) EVER #white stag #tuatha de #fomorians #i LOVE the folkloric ones #grew up with them #there are stories in my family of them #excluding my own experiences #of which there are MANY #but like #my grandparents had stories #my great grandma had stories #like basically every person in my family has had a run in at least once #mind #there are hundrends if not thousands of “species” of fairies #and even more cultural/ regional variants #these are just a few of my faves/ the ones I always think of #and the tylwyth teg of course ✨️#the tylweth teg have been good to me #as well as the tuatha de #tho #they dont always specify themselves by our words for them

Fairy Poetry

The Love Talker. I met the Love-Talker one eve in the glen, He was handsomer than any of our handsome young men, His eyes were blacker than the sloe, his voice sweeter far Than the crooning of old Kevin's pipes beyond in Coolnagar. I was bound for the milking with a heart fair and free– My grief! my grief! that bitter hour drained the life from me; I thought him human lover, though his lips on mine were cold, And the breath of death blew keen on me within his hold. I know not what way he came, no shadow fell behind, But all the sighing rushes swayed beneath a fairy wind The thrush ceased its singing, a mist crept about, We two clung together–with the world shut out. Ethna Carbury, The Love Talker

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