Sara,
In faerie lore, what’s the difference between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts?
Best wishes,
Tanya J.
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Sara,
In faerie lore, what’s the difference between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts?
Best wishes,
Tanya J.
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What Are Fairies?
A Basic Overview of Fairies
As a mythologist and a researcher I get to write some pretty interesting books and blogs: cryptozoology, demons, folklore, ghosts, mythological creatures, the paranormal in general, U.F.O.s, and vampires to name but a few. Currently, I am working on writing an academic encyclopedia of fairies <fan-girl squeal>.
To begin, “fairies” is the plural form of the species; the singular of the noun is “fay.” There are a great number of folks who use the word “fey” as a noun, but this is incorrect, it is an adjective and basically means “fated to die.” I know people will argue the fay/fey point, claiming this is how new-age folks and those “in the know” do it. Well, be that as it may, I trust the accepted and recognized definition in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Look it up in your hard copy or on-line, they are in agreement with one another. Dictionary.com, a popular on-line dictionary I occasionally reference for spelling also agrees with Merriam-Webster on this matter. I hate to be the one to burst your bubble, but the paranormal community loses another strand of credibility every time they get this word wrong.
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Leprechauns
By June K. Williams
Aka Weebit Molly O’Sunshine
May the curse of Mary Malone, her nine blind illegitimate children and a libidinous leprechaun chase you so far over the hills of Damnation that the Lord himself can’t find you with a telescope.
On St. Patrick’s Day it seems that everyone wants to be Irish and images of leprechauns seem to pop up everywhere. 
Not to rain on the parade but leprechauns have nothing to do with St. Patrick’s Day. They have a day of their own thank you very much, Leprechaun Day, held on May 13th. Having said that, there are few things that remind people more of Ireland than leprechauns and St. Patrick’s Day is the day most associated with the Irish throughout the world so perhaps I shouldn’t be nitpicking. Nitpicking and finding loopholes in agreements are very fairy traits and as leprechauns are not only a species of fae and Irish to boot it was only natural to a little pernickety.
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FAIRIES AND THE DRESDEN-VERSE
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by Theresa Bane
Have I mentioned lately how much I love “The Dresden Files?” It was long and ago that I first discovered Jim Butcher and his intrepid wizard hero, Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only practicing wizard (he’s in the yellow pages, go check for yourself). In fact it’s going on ten years now, or, there about. Hard to believe that Butcher has written 11 Dresden files book, 5 Codex Alera books, a Spiderman novel, a Dresden graphic novel, two novellas, and who knows how many short stories for various anthologies. Prolific much?
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