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The Fairy Story
“Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold...The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords. In that realm a man may, perhaps, count himself fortunate to have wandered, but its very richness and strangeness tie the tongue of a traveller who would report them. And while he is there it is dangerous for him to ask too many questions, lest the gates should be shut and the keys be lost.”
J. R. Tolkin

The character of fairy is hidden in many tales, and by many names. The word fairy after all is a new invention, not for a species of being but for a category of mystical beings. The fairy story by necessity then is obscure, so to understand one a person must read and compair many.


THE LAD AND THE FOX
Just as Jacob Grimm points out Puss in 'Puss and Boots' represents a fairy the fox in this story does as well.

The Kalevala
The fairy story which inspired Tolkin, a tale of powerful wizards and fairies.


   Primal Fairies
The story of the first fairies in Europe.
  Fairies Tales
Many different fairy stories which become a single whole.
      Fairies at the Threshold
The world is filled with wonder, the whole world is filled with fairies just waiting to burst across our thresholds.

Tales of Fairy
A children's book of Fairy Stories and Poems about fairies. You can get the e-Book for Free by clicking on the above link or soon by purchasing it at Amazon.com.
The Fairy Story
Fairy tales and stories about fairies and the magical realm from around the world.

A Magazine of Fairy Stories

Short Fairy Stories
The Folly of Foci
A fairy is warned to stay away from humans but decides instead to drive the human away, only to discover that there is a monster in the forest.

The Hidden Spot

The Painting