They don’t follow our logic on ethics or morals. This is because fairies don’t adhere to human rules. Because even though the Scottish called the Seelie mostly benevolent, they still considered them dangerous to humans. So when someone says you’re acting silly, you can smile and know you’ve just been called a fairy!īut to continue defining the fae folk, we’d have to call them both good and bad. Fun fact! The word Seelie means happy or lucky and is the word from which silly is derived. While the Unseelie Court is made up of harmful fairies that tend to be malevolent towards humans more so than the Seelie Court. In Scottish and Northern English folklore, the Seelie Court is the “mostly good, benevolent” fairies. Some cultures have tried to label them and define them. The nature of the fae folk can’t be divided into strict categories like good and bad. Classification: The Seelie and Unseelie Courts Because the true nature of the fae is incredibly more complex.

Hollywood has painted a picture of the fae that is deceitful at worst, narrow-minded at best. You’ve surely seen them in movies or in books, haven’t you? The thing is, they’re often portrayed as beautiful, winged pixies flitting from flower top to flower top. So who are the fae folk, exactly? If you haven’t figured it out by now, the words fae and fae folk are just other names for fairies. During my teen years, I began studying fairy lore and I haven’t turned back since. Of which further fueled my desire to learn more about fairies and even be more like fairies. When I was nine years old, a family member gave me a roleplaying board game called Tales of the Crystals. Fairy tales like Thumbelina, The Little Mermaid, and Rumpelstiltskin fed my belief in another world parallel to ours…the world of the fae. Since I was a little girl, I’ve been obsessed with the fae. Enjoy meeting them, but don’t eat the food! Or you might not ever return to our world. Have you ever wanted to meet the fae? In this blog post, take an enchanted journey with me to their world and learn of their origins, their true nature, their likes and dislikes, and basically everything we know about them. And yet somehow they’re completely different. It’s a world in the mist, under and beyond the sea, filled with beings not unlike ourselves. There’s a world parallel to ours, or perhaps underneath.

The fae keeper