| Fairy Time & Travel |
| Moonlight and twilight are the favoured moments for fairy magick at the times of the full, new, or dark moon. There is a strange stillness in the air when faries are about, and at twilight there is often an unuasual amount of birdsong. Time passes on different levels and is endless in Fairyland, with fairies living until extreme old age and the physical signs of aging virtually unknown. Because of this, it is quite well known that people who have disappeared from this world for many years and then suddenley reappear are often under the impression that they went missing for only a couple of days. Time is quite different in Fairyland: for example, one year in Fairyland is said to be equivalent to around 365 Earth years in the mortal world. Some people never come back from Fairyand: if you are intending to make a visit, it is wise to take a combination of useful and precautionary measures, such as wearing a garland of thyme and bay leaves around your neck to enable you to see fairies, wearing rowan twigs (mountain ash), verbain, and mistletoe in your hair for protection and to ensure a safe return to the mortal world, and carrying agate as an invisibility talisman. |
| Reguarding travel, fairies fly in a variety of ways. Although most fairies have wings, a lot of the time these are purely decorative and not strong enough to lift them off the ground. The fairy broomstick is very small and made of a ragwort stem or pieces of straw. Merpeople like using boats or dolphins to cross the seas, whereas nixies prefer swans. Small earth fairies, such as dwarves and goblins, like to ride on ponies or goats. Even smaller fairies ride on butterflies, dragonflies, doves, peacocks, bats and moths. If they don't use the travel service of an animal, fairies can also wear a tiny red cap that enchants them with a special flying power.. Magickal words used by fairies to lift them from the ground after preparing their rituals are: "Horse and hattock!", "Ho! Up and go!", "Thout, tout, throughout and about," or "Here's off, here's after." |
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