Magical beings such as elves or fairies

[starshiner]

I have always been interested in then subject of magical beings but never followed through with my curiosity, what are your views ?

[rashore]

Welcome to UM

There are a few threads here already about the wee folk, just use the search box in the upper right to get started. That could probably get you up to speed on how several people feel about the subject.

Wee folk lore comes in a dazzling array from all over the world. I would even hazard to say there isn't anywhere that doesn't have wee folk. There's way more than tinkerbells, dwarves, and gnomes.

In todays age, a lot of wee folk stories have gone into the realms of cryptids and ghosts. Like merfolk came out of wee folk lore, but is now considered a cryptid, or banshees are fairies but often come up in ghost stories. The wee folk even have their own grim reapers.

Wee folk within the notion of magical beings... That's kind of where the heart of the fae is. Pretty much all of them are supposed to be magical in some sort of way. Sometimes they are of the essence of a magic, like those associated with the spirit of elements, plants, special places. Sometimes the are more magic users, spell casters, portal or dimension shifters. Sometimes their only magic seems to be that of eluding the human eye.. or at least our recording devices.

[Drayno]

My views on elves are that if they exist, I want to live with them.

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

My views on elves are that if they exist, I want to live with them.

My opinion is that if the Fair Folk exist, then we'd better be very careful as to not draw their attention.

"We daren't go a hunting, for fear of little men" that sort of thing.

[Drayno]

My opinion is that if the Fair Folk exist, then we'd better be very careful as to not draw their attention.

"We daren't go a hunting, for fear of little men" that sort of thing.

It'd probably be wise.

[Trakkia]

well, we have tall people, short people, people with broad shoulders, people with big jaws, why not people with pointy ears? All they have to do is wear a hat. In fact, I bet that's why hipsters wear hats and scarves and stuff, they'r hiding pointy ears! But seriously, point ears is plausible, some race of humanoids could have existed with pointy ears at some point, then people decided to breed with with them, or kill them, and flushed out that gene, just like big browed neanderthals went bye bye. If they lived in a time where people made stories and then died out before now, we'd be hearing about 'Mr. Bigbrows' in fairy tails, probably taking on the roll of a grumpy troll or something.

As for dwarves, well I'm pretty sure that came from short people, who were likely outcast-you know, racism, it most likely existed back when the idea came about- and made their own little towns. Isn't there a condition to do with people being short due to their genes with something resembling 'dwarf' in the name? Not sure how this is much of a myth to be honest... Bar the idea of super strength or something, from some stories I've heard; but look at other things in history shrouded in mystery, people make up crazy things about them. Ever heard of ninjas?

The grim reaper is some creepy guy who decided to invent Halloween, but it went horribly wrong so someone else did.

Fairies.... I have no idea, I'd put it down to mushrooms...

But if they existed in all their magical prowess, I'd happily go to live with them, as someone said earlier.

Anyways, dwarves are just short people, elves could have had a gene that makes them have pointy ears -like features found in different ethnic groups that define them-, then the rest was superstition when they cut themselves off or from stories which were exaggerated after the gene disappeared, probably when mother nature realised pointed ears don't really aid hearing and will likely get you killed by the church -back then, that is. That's probably why they disappeared if they ever existed, and since ears don't have bones if we found elf bones we wouldn't know it.

Edited January 23, 2013 by Trakkia

[ali smack]

I don't believe in faeries, elves or any other little people.

I feel as if there's no evidence for there existence and also

I feel it's impossible for a human/or human like being been that small

[glorybebe]

I don't believe in faeries, elves or any other little people.

I feel as if there's no evidence for there existence and also

I feel it's impossible for a human/or human like being been that small

But, interestingly enough, every inhabited continent has old old stories about little people in one shape or form.

[rashore]

Not all wee folk are small. Some of them are smaller than average human, some of them are human sized, and some of them are larger than human. Some of them are very human-like, some are very not human like at all. Some are animals too.

There really is a huge amount of variety among all the wee folk lore.

[starshiner]

Good points I believe there is something like that, at the heart of nature, or more at the heart of deeper unknown/unexplored places, places we perhaps cant see or places that we don't .

Personally I think we're not ready as a hole to descover anything do pure because we would destroy it, exploit it. I believe in time we will learn to co-exist and create rather than take and destroy, well that is my hope.

[+DieChecker]

Personnally, I think they are folklore. But it is interesting that almost every culture in the world has some kind of little people in their myths and legends.

The Hawaiians have the Menehune. The Japanese have the Kappa. The Native Ameicans had numerous kinds of little people, as did Europe, Asia and Africa.

Could very well be a hard wired thing in the human brain to believe in the unexplained, and the Little People, could be the end result of such a issue in our brains/thinking.

[modas]

I do kind of beleave in some of folk creatures who live in other dimentions but i think it's a side efect of playing to much dragon age (for those who don't know it it's a briliant video game).

[Rafterman]

Are we talking Keebler type elves or more of the hot cosplay kinds of elves?

[starshiner]

Are we talking Keebler type elves or more of the hot cosplay kinds of elves?

No specific type of elf, just them in general

[starshiner]

I do kind of beleave in some of folk creatures who live in other dimentions but i think it's a side efect of playing to much dragon age (for those who don't know it it's a briliant video game).

People I have spoken to before have said the same- that they believe elves and higher beings exists in other planes or dimensions to us.

[+DieChecker]

I was thinking about this the other day and my 1 1/2 year old son is like 30 inches tall, yet has language, tool use, social skills and basically everything that would be needed to survive, except a good way to avoid predators. So, thinking there are little people who could exist seems not so much about size, as it is about historical/archeological evidence.

[Urisk]

Well they were certainly real up to about 100 years ago... at least to many folk. I suppose that's about as concrete an answer as can be given.

A stream with strong undercurrents, or a large loch with similar, or a particularly apparent thermocline... well of course that'd house a dreaded kelpie. Steep, rocky mountainsides... Of course nasty beasties like the Fachan of Glen Etive. You get my drift... I can't explain brownies though, perhaps there was a call for people breaking into your house and doing your chores overnight? Maybe burglars were far more civil and well-intentioned back then?

[AsteroidX]

I play an elf in my computer. Another way things are real. Fantasy comes in many forms. But yes the spirit world is full of these things. They just dont like the world we live in. Wonder why ?

[No Censorship]

I think that the fables and folklore were based on humans. Larger people came into contact with smaller people, who seemed mysterious to them. There may be an alien connection too. That's a secondary explanation, though.

[ReaperS_ParadoX]

well, we have tall people, short people, people with broad shoulders, people with big jaws, why not people with pointy ears? All they have to do is wear a hat. In fact, I bet that's why hipsters wear hats and scarves and stuff, they'r hiding pointy ears! But seriously, point ears is plausible, some race of humanoids could have existed with pointy ears at some point, then people decided to breed with with them, or kill them, and flushed out that gene, just like big browed neanderthals went bye bye. If they lived in a time where people made stories and then died out before now, we'd be hearing about 'Mr. Bigbrows' in fairy tails, probably taking on the roll of a grumpy troll or something.

As for dwarves, well I'm pretty sure that came from short people, who were likely outcast-you know, racism, it most likely existed back when the idea came about- and made their own little towns. Isn't there a condition to do with people being short due to their genes with something resembling 'dwarf' in the name? Not sure how this is much of a myth to be honest... Bar the idea of super strength or something, from some stories I've heard; but look at other things in history shrouded in mystery, people make up crazy things about them. Ever heard of ninjas?

The grim reaper is some creepy guy who decided to invent Halloween, but it went horribly wrong so someone else did.

Fairies.... I have no idea, I'd put it down to mushrooms...

But if they existed in all their magical prowess, I'd happily go to live with them, as someone said earlier.

Anyways, dwarves are just short people, elves could have had a gene that makes them have pointy ears -like features found in different ethnic groups that define them-, then the rest was superstition when they cut themselves off or from stories which were exaggerated after the gene disappeared, probably when mother nature realised pointed ears don't really aid hearing and will likely get you killed by the church -back then, that is. That's probably why they disappeared if they ever existed, and since ears don't have bones if we found elf bones we wouldn't know it.

I think the word is Dwarfism that your looking for

I do kind of beleave in some of folk creatures who live in other dimentions but i think it's a side efect of playing to much dragon age (for those who don't know it it's a briliant video game).

I prefer Skyrim myself

[ali smack]

I don't believe in faeries, elves, pixies, etc

I think they are just folklore like goblins, and trolls.

[rashore]

I don't believe in faeries, elves, pixies, etc

I think they are just folklore like goblins, and trolls.

Hehehe. Goblins and trolls are faeries just like elves and pixies are.

[freetoroam]

Fairies are not as nice as some people think. Many a child had been killed because their parents thought the fairies had stolen their babies and the baby was now the demon.

[Lumpino]

I have always been interested in then subject of magical beings but never followed through with my curiosity, what are your views ?

What about to try a meditation. About a fairy. But, about some fairy from some myths. Hindu, Greece and so on.

I tried for example evocation of Circe (Greece myth) and she came in the form of visible. I think that fairies are astral beings.

Edited February 24, 2013 by Lumpino

[VERsponsible]

I myself believe in Faeries. I've also had a few experiences with Faeries. For instance, One day I grabbed my wallet out of my purse and left the room for ten minutes. I came back and my wallet was gone! I was the only one in my room and everyone else was in the living room (where I was when I left). A few days go by and I still haven't found it. My mom suggests for me to look under my bird's cage and I thought it was stupid but looked anyways. Sure enough, my wallet was there, behind a shoe box, against the wall. There's no possible way that could've happened naturally. I told my friend this while my wallet was still missing and she thought it was Faeries.

Another was when I got a string of bells to put up in my room. I'm constantly hearing them go off! It's the Faeries, man!

And to answer the question you're all probably thinking, NO! I do NOT do drugs or drink!!