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Fairs lives in some type of land both on earth and on an other plane of existence. This place has been called many names throughout history: Fairyland, Elfhame,Tir-na-nOg, the Realm Perilous, Avalon, ... It is told in the legends, that once there was a time when the human world was one with Faerie. But because of some dramatic change, Faeries had to retreat and maintain only an avant-post on our world.

The passages that lead to Faerieland were as numerous as people and countries

Follow the guide to FairyLand

 

  • Karnach: there was a time when the Korrigans nation had its main city under the megaliths of Karnach in South Britanny. 
  • Broceliande : a deep forest in Britanny (France) which was believed to be Camelot at the time of the King Arthur. Viviane has her own fountain where one with pure heart can see her. 
  • Isle of Skye : One family who was supposed to have stumbled upon this underground abode was the MacCrimmons, whose fame as pipers is known throughout Scotland. They were supposed to have been granted this marvelous musical gift from the Seelie Court in return for their unselfish desire to serve their fellow countrymen. Incidentally, they found the Seelie Court's burgh. 
  • Pembrokshire Coast : the Welsh thought it to be an invisible island in the Irish Channel just off this coast 
  • Bryn y Ellyllon : (the hill of the goblins) in Somerset, near Mold, Clyd Flint.   
  • Hy Breasail : elusive island to the west of Ireland 
  • Castle Neroche : in Somerset. Faeries defended their hill from gold seekers by instilling the miners with a fierce panic and they all died within a month of the attempt. 
  • The tumulus at New Grange, Ireland 
  • Knockma Hill: Under Knockma Hill is King Firvarra's palace. He still holds court there as the leader of the Daoine Sidhe. 
  • Isle of Man : where fearies have been the most active in the United Kingdom 
  • Gump Hill : near Cornwall, reported to be a popular faerie meeting place. 
  • The Mönchen Mountains, near Knesebeck in Germany 
  • The Dwarves' Cavern in Hasel not far from Schopfheim in Germany was once home to a large number of male and female dwarves, from whom the cavern's name derives. 
  • On the north and the south sides of the Harz mountains in Germany,  especially in several areas of the Hohenstein region,there once lived many thousands of dwarves or "Kröpel" in the clefts of the cliffs and in the still-extant dwarf caves.

  

Those who do not live in the big cities tend to settle down in small packs of several families. There dwelling can sometime be rcognized. The Gaelic belief recognizes no Fairyland or realm different from the earth's surcface on which men live and move. The dwellings are underground, but it is on the natural face of earth the Fairies find their sustenance, pasture their cattle, and on which they forage and roam.

Sithein is the name of any place in which the Fairies take up their residence. It is known from the surrounding scenery by the peculiarly green appearance and rounded form. Like a tumulus, it is nearly conical a form and covered with rich verdure. Its external appearance has led to its being also known by various other names.

Brugh denotes the Fairy dwelling viewed as it were from the inside--the interiors--but is often used interchangeably with sithein. It is probably the same word as burgh, borough, or bro', and its reference is to the number of inmates in the Fairy dwelling

These dwellings were tenanted sometimes by a single family only, more frequently by a whole community. The elves were said to change their residences as men do, and, when they saw proper themselves, to remove to distant parts of the country and more desirable haunts. To them, on their arrival in their new home, are ascribed the words:

               "Though the good haven we have left,
                Better be the haven we have found." 

The Fairy hillock might be passed by the strangers without suspicion of its being tenanted, and cattle were pastured on it unmolested by the "good people". There is, however, a common story in the Western Isles that a person was tethering his horse or cow for the night on a green tolman where a head a appeared out of the ground, and told him to tether the beast somewhere else, as he let rain into "their" house, and had nearly driven the tether-pin into the ear of one of the inmates. Another, who was in the habit of pouring out dirty water at the door, was told by the Fairies to pour it elsewhere, as he was spoiling their furniture. He shifted the door to the back of the house, and prospered ever after. The Fairies were very grateful to any one who kept the shi-en clean, and swept away cow or horse-droppings falling on it. Finding a farmer careful of the roof of their dwelling, keeping it clean, and not breaking the sward with tether-pin or spade, they showed their thankfulness by driving his horses and cattle to the sheltered side of the mound when the night proved stormy. Many believe the Fairies themselves swept the hillock every night, so that in the morning its surface was spotless.

  

Fairy islands are mythological islands where endless spring and happiness is. Ageing and sickness in unheard of. Somesay they float, some are underwater and come above surface at night andsome are visible only at special occasions. Among the best known are the Isles of the Blest (a/k/a Fortunate Islands), Tir Nan Og (the Land of the Young), Tirfo Thuinn (the Land Under the Waves), Tire Nam Beo (Land of the Living), Tirn Aill (the Other World), Mag Mor (the Great Plain), Mag Mell (the Pleasant Plain), and Tir Tairngire (the Plain of Happiness). Some of these Islands have been named: the Isles of the Blest, Tir Nan Og, Tirfo Thuinn, Tire NamBeo, Tirn Aill, Mag Mor, Mag Mell etc..etc...

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