The Fairies: A History - Mythillogical

Drinking game!! Whenever Charles says "they're often associated with the colour green" take a hearty swig. 🍻

I tell my nieces that fairies used to be tall and could not fly. Then they discovered fairy dust, which made them little and let them fly. This lets me tell them older fairy stories.

Regarding if banshee is a fairy or not, the Irish spelling is bansidhe, or ban Sidhe, which literally translates to fairy woman, ban mean woman and Sidhe is fairy

I recognize a similarity between that Welsh story of the woman leaving her husband and a Japanese one: A man is saved in a snow storm by a beautiful woman. She spares his life and says that if he tells anyone what happened, she will return to kill him. Later on, he marries another beautiful woman. Years go by and they have children (I believe they have three children as well), until one night he begins reminiscing to her as their children sleep. He is reminded by the woman's appearance from his wife. His wife reveals herself to be the woman in the snow, and cannot bring herself to kill him, so she resorts to leave.

My favourite part of Bram Stoker's Dracula is when he peers through that window and says: "Dude! Let me in. I'm a fairy... What? Don't you believe in fairies!?" -- Also, thanks for another great video 🖤

The fairy wife who leaves when the husband does something wrong is very similar to Japan's Yuki-onna or France's Melusine. Would love for a future episode to compare fairy stories from around the world, but I appreciate that's a lot of even more work 😅

Re: disneyfication of stories: Bambi. Bambi was written by Felix Salten in the twenties as an anti-hunting treatise. The chapter where Bambi's father dies is very traumatizing to small children. Disney cleaned it up to an incredible degree for the movie and it still makes children cry.

I'm surprised why you did not mention Eddie Lenihan at all in your section on Ireland. He has the largest private collection of Irish fairy stories recorded from the 70's up until today and the man has a podcast here on YouTube as well as several books on Irish fairy folklore.

It's fascinating how certain beings/creatures that were originally considered quite malevolant by pre Christian & early Christian societies evolved in pop culture as child friendly fantasy. Mermaids, Unicorns, Faeries(The Fae), Elves, etc. My inro to faeries was probably Disney? You mentioned Tinkerbell & there was also Cinderella with a Fairy Godmother & Pinochio had The Blue Fairy.

Also I really appreciated that you mentioned that fairies or at least "energies" that seem similar appear all over the world and you made the choice to focus on where you would be able to access the information in a language that you speak.

Good things come to those who wait. This will be grand. Thank you.

0:00 - 5:55: Intro and backstory 6:00: Modern and traditional fairies  15:33: Fae sections and resources 21:30: Charle's fare part: Early mordern period 46:03: Charle's fare part 2: Modern fairy collections  50:31 Charle's fare part 3: Fairy traits and traditions + Pixies 1:01:30 ; Flavorful Fairy related creatures 1:19:20 :Crofty's over the border section 1:48:41 ; Crofty's 2nd fae border 2:41:03 Duo on the ending passages 3:31:19 Fae closing remarks If this gets 50+ likes, I'll ass in the speific fairy types for each part in order.

In France we do not have a tooth fairy but a mouse of the tooth. A litle magical mouse who trade tooth for money under the pillow.

Tinker Bell did also try to kill Wendy in the Disney movie, though Disney doesn't tend to bring it up in her modern appearances.

I enjoy listening to these longer episodes on long drives. I also want to add that there is a North American entity called the Kushtaka that resembles early faery myths, particularly the dead who join the fey rather than suffer a mortal death.

Watched the entire thing and found it quite lovely to learn this history! I had to watch it over 3 days off and on, but it was a great treat!

Never clicked so fast

I was told by a lady from The Isle of Man that it is impolite to call them “ fairies”. They call them “ The little folk”.

I have a great knack for finding four leaf clovers. I’ve found hundreds & hundreds over the years, no exaggeration. At one place I lived there was a three by three patch of grass & clovers that was always filled with four leaf & even five & six leaf clovers. I collected hundreds there alone over the two years I lived there. Anyway as a kid I would dig under every four leaf clover I found searching for the leprechaun underneath. I swear as a kid I saw one once (I mean kid self me swore I did). I was amazed by leprechauns but I never believed the teachers in school when the school leprechaun messed up the room. I believed they played little tricks on us individually instead & I often thought they were messing with me.

Charles!!!!! Thank you!!! I was just telling my friends about your channel a few hours ago and then here you are, uploading 3 hours on fairies, God bless you