Friday, December 5, 2008
Fairy
Today I'll talk about fairies. People draw them as pretty and cute. They are not only cute but also cruel. Do you know about fairy circles? It is said that they are made after fairies danced in a round. If people set foot in one, they must dance with the fairies until the fairies become weary or the human dies. There are fairies who eat people such as Kelpie and there are those who look like ghosts. There are also those who bring death to people who look at them or hear their voice. Like this, fairies aren't only cute, but rather it should be said that some are innocentlly cruel. And they connote an instinctual terror. (Fairies who eat people don't eat people because of hatred or pleasure.)
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I think that folklore, myth and fairy stories are often written to present a certain point about human life. Do you think that there is some importance in presenting a fairy such as Kelpie, that eats people, or fairies that dance humans to death? Is there some kind of message in this for humans to learn?
In my mind, fairies are cute and small form of human, but I think it's influences of cartoons. So, how you can see, I don't know about folklore, myth and fairy well.
breath1- I have never thought about what you said. But I think there is may be message as you say. There are warnings for children, I think. The story about such as Kelpie means don't approach a pond because it is dangerous.(Perhaps children fall into.) In Japan, parent say to their child that if they sleep with showing their navel, the god of thunder will take it. As parent say with anxiety that their children won't catch cold, it is cannote wearning.
That makes sense to me. Thanks for clearing that up.
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