Faeries are said to be supernatural beings that can appear and
disappear at will. Usually smaller than human beings, Faeries
may be helpful or malicious. They are generally portrayed as
living underwater (e.g. mermaids), underground (e.g. gnomes), in
a magical forest region or in some far away land. Some faeries
enter into physical, enchanted or possibly mystical love and
ethereal sex relations with human beings. Various legends and
theories try to account for their origin. Some say that fairies
derive from animistic beliefs in which objects are said to
contain spirits. Others see fairies as emerging from a belief in
spirits of the dead residing in the underworld. The Celts,
especially, saw Faeries as beings who fled from invading humans,
taking refuge in the underworld. Fairies have also been
suggested to derive from the Furies of Greek and Roman myth.
Christians have seen Faeries as the unbaptized. Taking many
forms worldwide, the actual term faery – indistinguishable from
fairy – comes from “fay-erie”, ori