. .Prepare to be enchanted! While humans go about their workaday lives, there is a secret world of well-dressed fairies flitting about in fragile fashions that would take your breath away - if only you could see them. Well, now you can. For the first time ever, elusive fairie couturier Ellwand allows mortals a peek at his ethereal designs in FAIRIE-ALITY, a catalogue so spectacularly crafted it befits a fairie queen herself. Showcased are nearly 150 creations - including dresses, jackets, trousers, shoes, hats, and delicate unmentionables - fashioned wholly from feathers, flower petals, shells, seeds, and other materials from nature. Consider these special features:Extraordinary production elements, including three specially selected paper stocks; metallic inks; fold-out booklets; vellum envelope with removable fashion card; and numerous half-, third-, and quarter-pages, notably to showcase garments for a playful mix & match, offering dozens of outfits to create.Drawings by celebrated fashion illustrator David Downton, capturing the graceful, but rarely glimpsed, fairie attired in Ellwand’s designs.Witty and delightfully romantic captions by Eugenie Bird. A breathless narrative by a young fairie guiding us from The Season’s start through May Day revelry and a Fairie Tale Wedding.Filled with authentic fairie lore that will lure fairie lovers by the legion, this superbly designed volume also offers many clever nods to human fashion history. Its fun, fanciful costume descriptions will amuse the fashion-savvy everywhere, while the stunning array of fashions themselves - a veritable dress-up dream - will leave readers of all ages spellbound.

    When Jessie finds the invisible door to the Fairy Realm, she enters a magical world full of elves, fairies, storytelling furrybears, fearsome griffins and unicorns.Jessie, the feisty, likeable young heroine, is an ordinary girl whose seemingly ordinary grandmother is actually a fairy queen.This collection has everything: adventure, danger, humour, great story-telling, a likeable heroine, and the small problems at home and school that are common to all children.

    This deck has four suits, one for each season, plus eight additional cards that celebrate the major Celtic Fairy Festival holidays. Included with the deck is a 240-page book that is filled with fairy lore, the meanings of the cards, their myths and legends, how to work with the fairy or character on each card and an amazing nine different spreads you can use. This is more than just a divinatory deck--it's virtually an entire spiritual, magickal, and oracular system!The strikingly beautiful artwork will literally draw you into the world of the fairy. It will let you cross over from our world and allow you to listen to their wisdom. But this requires you to take the first step. Using this deck will help you to let the fairies fill your dreams. Read about just one card per day, and in only two months you'll have amassed more fairy lore than you can imagine!More importantly, by working with this deck, the fairies will come to know and trust you and share their wisdom with you. The fae don't easily give their friendship and let you into their world. Ideal for all Pagans and lovers of the fairy realms. Don't let this opportunity to commune with the fairy folk pass you by! The beauty of this set makes it a great gift, too!

    The stories include: "Polly and the Pixies", "Angel", "The Hairy Boggart", "The Endless Story", "Sniffer", "Brave Words Indeed", "The Bath Assault" and "Crafty Herbert". Full description

    It is an indepth study of Robert Kirk's 'The Secret Commonwealth', using this manuscript as starting point for examining other contemporary works conserning fairies and second sight. The Secret Commonwealth, written near the end of the seventeenth century by Robert Kirk, a Highland Presbyterian minister, is an account of Scottish beliefs concerning fairies and second sight. The abundance of Celtic fairy material in The Secret Commonwealth enables us to assess the extent to which non-Christian magico-religious folk beliefs were able to exist in the Highlands. One can also see where Kirk's text reflects or conflicts with orthodox belief systems regarding the supernatural world. These matters are discussed, as the contents of the text are systematically examined against the background of Celtic folklore and other seventeenth-century works that concerned themselves with fairies and the supernatural. This body of magico-religious beliefs, thus contextualized, is then interpreted to determine its importance and meaning in Early Modern Highland culture.The introduction consists of a description of the seventeenth century intellectual climate; the author; and the text's form, content, and publishing history. This is followed by a copy of the manuscript. The body of the thesis contextualizes the information in the manuscript typologically to derive an implicit context amid similar cultural expressions. The conclusion will re-examine some historical concerns before demonstrating that these fairy beliefs constituted a coherent, if amorphous, belief complex concerned with the nature of the spiritual, social, and physical world. This idea will be explored phenomenologically, to define the belief complex itself from the information gathered thus far, and then examined in the light of current academic views regarding `survivals' and `syncretism'. This is intended to draw the reader toward an understanding of this fairy belief complex and the position it holds in the Early Modern Highland culture.

    This book presents several jigsaw puzzles to guess what presents the fairies are making for the royal baby.

    "Hop into bed," said Mother, "and I'll tell you what I know about fairies." So begins a whimsical journey through the magic and mystery of the fairy world, where marvelous winged creatures paint rainbows, teach birds to sing, hang stars in the evening sky, and welcome children to dreamland.