Fun talk:Fairies

Excellent non-dino fairy theory.Susan^{talk to me} 18:04, 24 September 2007 (EDT)

Thank you. I tried to keep the dinosaurs out of the picture and keep focused on the fairies. --Bob^{'s your uncle} 18:09, 24 September 2007 (EDT)

/me is a færie. CЯacke® 18:14, 24 September 2007 (EDT)

Ah, but you may or may not be extinct.--Bob^{'s your uncle} 18:16, 24 September 2007 (EDT)

This is actually a really good article (funny, but still gets its point across very well). Can we nominate it for best of religion/science/something? Thunderkatz^Ho! 15:34, 10 October 2007 (EDT)

Perhaps it should be a best of rw?162.82.215.199 16:28, 10 October 2007 (EDT)

Without the bit before the contents yes!
(though I'll be sad to see it go) Susan^{talk to me} 16:45, 10 October 2007 (EDT)

Removed it: That which resides in Susan Garlick's garden.

'They're mostly elves now, the cats have eaten all their wings (mmmm, tasty). One or two have grown old & turned into gnomes.

Susan^{talk to me} 16:51, 10 October 2007 (EDT)

Oooo. Yes best of.... parody? I'd be so proud. It's mostly my baby.--Bob^{'s your uncle} 17:26, 10 October 2007 (EDT)

I believe that a strangely high number of Icelanders believe in fairies or gnomes etc. I will look into it for an article Streona 15:52, 7 January 2008 (EST)

You mean elves. In fact, I recall reading about honest elf-belief somewhere in Scotland, too, but unfortunately cannot remember any details. --84.151.196.180 (talk) 17:21, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

See here.--Bob^{Spring is sprung!} 18:42, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Title

Why is the title plural? I propose moving to "Fairy" tout de suite, or as the French say, toot sweet. human 00:47, 4 March 2008 (EST)

I guess I originally made it plural because it refers mostly to "fairies" as a group.--Bob^{bing up} 04:03, 4 March 2008 (EST)

Sarcasm

I detect sarcasm in this article. Under NOMA this must be removed without hesitation. SusanG 14:17, 11 April 2008 (EDT)

Fairies fall well within the realm of science after all we have pictures. tmtoulouse ^beleaguer 14:19, 11 April 2008 (EDT)

Science has shown these to be fakes SusanG 14:21, 11 April 2008 (EDT)

I think you must not understand NOMA. NOMA says if I says its religious, you can't touch it. Nyah Nyah. :eye roll: --Arcan ¡ollǝɥ 14:23, 11 April 2008 (EDT)

You must be thinking of those other pictures I am thinking about the ones the you know were proven real.... tmtoulouse ^beleaguer 14:24, 11 April 2008 (EDT)

To attempt to answer this seriously. I am not aware of any people who seriously hold fairies to be a part of their religion, but if there were, then yes, NOMA would cover it.Tolerance 14:36, 11 April 2008 (EDT)

I believe on a religious basis that NOMA is wrong. NightFlare^{Speak, mortal} 14:41, 11 April 2008 (EDT)

(edit conflict)I'm sure there are some folks out there who believe in fairies. There's a religion for everything. You can worship a plate of spaghetti, if you want. But that doesn't mean you can draw the "here, but no further" line wherever you choose. You seem to have a extremely limiting (and self-serving) concept of NOMA. --Arcan ¡ollǝɥ 14:42, 11 April 2008 (EDT)

Well he(?)s not a Cornishman then or a Manxman or an Icelander, is he? SusanG 14:44, 11 April 2008 (EDT)

Shhhhhhhh! Be careful or the Danish Cabal will turn up to make even more trouble with their Gloomianity! human 22:21, 11 April 2008 (EDT)

Ha! Teh Danske only pay lip service to faeries. They worship BACON. SusanG 22:38, 11 April 2008 (EDT)

Fairies Do They Really Exist

It is said that for every time someone says that they dont believe in fairies, a fairy somewhare dies. As for me, I ask, as humans, who are we to say that fairies donot exist. The fact is that we ourselves didnot create the univers. The univers is filld with mysteries that no human being can fathem. So how can we sit here and say that another being doesnot exist. As for me, if someone where to ask me if I believe in fairies. my answer would be yes and I am not ashamed of my belief. There are meny things in life that though we may not see how they would be possible are possible. I have heard it said before as a child that some things just are. They dont require an explination. I believe that the evidence of the exiustance of fairies is well prevelent in our surroundings(i.e) nature. Yes there may have been a god who created the uniuverse. But if it is possible for this to happon it is also like wise possible for him to have created beings to help mother nature.

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Wow. All I can say is, wow. How can we feed this delightful contributor? ħuman 02:11, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

I think it is an issue of wether one chooses to look at life and its mysteries with an open heart and mind or wether they choose to remain closed in their thoughts and trapped in what sociaty would have them to believe. If you approach a situation like this with a closed heart and mind then you will never expierence anything other then what you choose to accept65.255.77.91 (talk) 22:06, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Robrt / True Color

who are we to say that fairies donot exist

I have heard it said

They dont require an explination

If you approach a situation like this with a closed heart and mind then you will never expierence anything other then what you choose to accept

-- =w= 22:14, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

If you continue to spell poorly, I will... Use a loop and the say command on OS X to say "I don't believe in fairies" a hundred times. Professor Moriarty 22:24, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Didn't they do the opposite in Hogfather by using Hex to believe? ^theist 22:26, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Quote mining Richard Dawkins

“”There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden.

—a quote mine, (ie a quote taken out of context) from Richard Dawkins

Dawkins regularly complains about religious people quote mining him and parodying such a quote mine is great. Still we shouldn't add to the problem by including anything that isn't clearly a quote mine. This is clearly a quote mine if anyone clicks on the link. Still I don't click on more than a few links when I read wiki articles, readers who click on too many links just get too much disconnected information and rarely read anything through to the end. Should we be fair to Richard Dawkins and make the quote mine clear, even to readers from Christian websites who've already read many Dawkins quote mines and don't know what a quote mine is?

Proxima Centauri (talk) 12:29, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

No. Evil fascist^{oh noez} 12:33, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Move

I say move to Fun: Fairies. It has way too much parody and sarcasm in it.--Seonookim (talk) 02:11, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Pixies

I am quite sure pixies are a type of faerie. I assume in the same way a human is a monkey an ape. -- Corpse in the bed (talk) 03:17, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

What about selkies and changelings?

As 'so many cultures' have stories of 'otherfolk with special powers', what would the starting points actually have been? 86.134.53.30 (talk) 12:55, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

A very interesting point - along the lines of "Is Allah God?". When is one non-existent being the same as another?

The whole pixies thing comes down to the fact that electric lighting is a very recent phenomenon. Until recent times we lived in a world of darkness an shadows. Candles and oil lamps are very inefficient and, in many ways, their flickering light source just adds to the problem.

And then it is a natural human solution to populate these shadows with tales to titillate and amuse. Whereas, in the modern world, the "monster" is confined to under the bed, back then it was everywhere, in every nook and cranny, at least the ones in darkness. Gather round as I tell you what I saw as I was coming through the forest....

Add to that the need for explanations of the unknown. Little Johnny hasn't got Down's syndrome - he was swapped by the faeries as a baby.

But to leap from all this to some suggestion that the stories are real, oh, come on. You might as well say that the universality and longevity of the Superman myth, err... comics means that there are mild mannered reporters who, in the secret of the phone booth, turn into 'otherkin with special powers' Doxys Midnight Runner (talk) 13:19, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

More sightings

The Icelanders have a minister of fairies, and take their habitations into account when building roads.

In the UK there is the phrase 'away with the fairies.'

And then there are the Irish leprechauns. 86.191.145.7 (talk) 22:53, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

I saw the Pink Fairies at what was then the Town & Country Club in Kentish Town circa 1987, if that's any help. Mr Larrington (talk) 17:49, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Fairy tales

... rarely contain fairies. Why? 86.191.145.56 (talk) 23:06, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Homophobia. --157.131.152.164 (talk) 03:31, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Joan the Wad

Is another of the fairies.

Perhaps there should be a list (named, types etc) of such entities here as most will not justify their own pages. 82.44.143.26 (talk) 17:48, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Why the move to Fun?

I disagree with this move to funspace.

Just about every one of the arguments "for" the existence of fairies showpieces a logical fallacy of one type or another. Perhaps this is too subtle?Bob^{"Life is short and (insert adjective)"} 21:27, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Aliens?

Some varieties of fairies and of dragons have wings; and centaurs have four (horse) legs and two human arms.

Therefore all come from 'some alien world' where six-limbed creatures were the norm. Those angels with a single pair of wings come from the same planet - while those with three pairs come from 'somewhere else entirely.'

Some mention should be made of this - and what fairies have at the bottom of their gardens. Anna Livia (talk) 23:40, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Proper article on fairies

We should have a proper article on fairies (preferably called Fairy). It relates to existing articles: Cottingley fairies, tooth fairy, fairy ring, fairy tale, Leprechaun, Iceland, etc. Wikipedia has a good article, Fairy. There's lots of serious folkloric studies on fairies, some already mentioned on RW (Silver, Lang, Lewis Spence, etc). I'm sure there's a lot of very silly books and people as well. "Fairies, trolls and pixies in the eco-protest movement, which includes protesters' accounts of meetings with fairy beings"[1] Links to wicca and theosophy.[2][3][4] Changelings (babies replaced by fairies) don't seem to be covered anywhere despite being exemplary of primal fears and linking fairies with prejudice against Gypsies and other groups. And we need an explanation on the difference between a faerie, fairy, fae, and moth.

At the same time, a lot of this article is unsuitable, and cutting and pasting the more serious material into a new article is frowned upon. Can I split the page somehow or is it better to start anew? --Annanoon (talk) 15:56, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

This #is# the funspace article - so can coexist with a 'proper' RW article on fairies as the Land of Faerie does with the Real World. Anna Livia (talk) 17:37, 19 February 2019 (UTC)