In the modern era, C. S. Lewis writes about the possibility of fairies being real in “The Longaevi” (the "Long-livers" or "Long Lived Ones") in his book The Discarded Image. Lewis also shared this account of comments by J. R. R. Tolkien within a letter to Arthur Greeves (22 June 1930): If so, it's likely you've been influenced by Cicely Mary Barker, the British illustrator who created the Flower Fairies. 2023 marks 100 years since the publication of her first book of poems and pictures, Flower Fairies of the Spring – an anniversary currently being celebrated in an exhibition at the Lady Lever Gallery in Merseyside, UK. In the 1485 book Le Morte d'Arthur, Morgan le Fay, whose connection to the realm of Faerie is implied in her name, is a woman whose magic powers stem from study. [91] While somewhat diminished with time, fairies never completely vanished from the tradition. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a 14th-century tale, but the Green Knight himself is an otherworldly being. [89] Edmund Spenser featured fairies in his 1590 book The Faerie Queene. [92] In many works of fiction, fairies are freely mixed with the nymphs and satyrs of classical tradition, [93] while in others (e.g., Lamia), they were seen as displacing the Classical beings. 15th-century poet and monk John Lydgate wrote that King Arthur was crowned in "the land of the fairy" and taken in his death by four fairy queens, to Avalon, where he lies under a "fairy hill" until he is needed again. [94] The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania by Joseph Noel Paton (1849): fairies in Shakespeare

Clark, Stephen R.L. (1987). "How to Believe in Fairies." Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. 30 (4):337-355. The King of Ireland's Son: The House of Crom Duv: The Story of the Fairy Rowan Tree". www.sacred-texts.com. Arthur Conan Doyle, in his 1922 book The Coming of the Fairies; The Theosophic View of Fairies, reported that eminent theosophist E. L. Gardner had likened fairies to butterflies, whose function was to provide an essential link between the energy of the sun and the plants of Earth, describing them as having no clean-cut shape ... small, hazy, and somewhat luminous clouds of colour with a brighter sparkish nucleus. "That growth of a plant which we regard as the customary and inevitable result of associating the three factors of sun, seed, and soil would never take place if the fairy builders were absent." [29] Shakespeare, William (1979). Harold F. Brooks (ed.). The Arden Shakespeare "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Methuen & Co. Ltd. cxxv. ISBN 0-415-02699-7. Carole G. Silver, Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)Colouring can help children to learn about shapes, colours, patterns and forms. This helps with brain development, fine motor skills and even pen grip that's valuable for aiding writing skills. Colouring can also assist with hand and eye coordination as a child learns to colour within the specified area. Katharine Briggs, A Dictionary of Fairies: Hobgoblings, Brownies, Bogies, and other Supernatural Creatures (Bungay: Penguin, 1977)

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The sale of customised goods or perishable goods, sealed audio or video recordings, or software, which has been opened. According to some historians, such as Barthélemy d'Herbelot, fairies were adopted from and influenced by the peris of Persian mythology. [9] Peris were angelic beings that were mentioned in antiquity in pre-Islamic Persia as early as the Achaemenid Empire. Peris were later described in various Persian works in great detail such as the Shahnameh by Ferdowsi. A peri was illustrated to be fair, beautiful, and extravagant nature spirits that were supported by wings. This may have influenced migratory Germanic and Eurasian settlers into Europe, or been transmitted during early exchanges. [10] The similarities could also be attributed to a shared Proto-Indo-European mythology. [11] Eason, Cassandra (2008). "Fabulous creatures, mythical monsters and animal power symbols". Fabulous creatures, mythical monsters, and animal power symbols: a handbook. Greenwood Publishing. pp.147, 148. ISBN 9780275994259 . Retrieved 11 May 2013. David Bentley Hart (30 December 2022). "Saving Scholé with David Bentley Hart". Classical Academic Press. At the 2:42 mark: Remind them, and this is absolutely vital, that fairies are real.