Although you never have seen one, they exist. They are small luminous beings who appear frequently in the deep forests. Fairies are often depicted as diminutive winged humans with magical powers.
Those magical beings encourage the hope that the innocent imagination of childhood is still present in our hearts. The world of Fairies is a mixture of a mysterious enchantment, a charming beauty, but also of a huge ugliness, of insensitive shallowness, humor, malice, joy and inspiration, fear, laughter, love, and tragedy. Love, but also abandonment and death, may follow under their spell. Like human beings, they live in a universe of contradictions.
The belief in the existence of fairies is common to the most diverse cultures. It origin dates back to myths and legends of each culture. One of those legends assures that fairies are fallen angels or dead pagans not good enough to be admitted in the Eden, or not wicked enough to go to hell. That is why they were compelled to live eternally halfway.
They are grouped in generic families based on big differences among them, and the elements they inhabit or domain. They could be classified as follows:
Air Spirits
Water Spirits
Earth Spirits
Fire Spirits: Salamanders
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