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A friend of mine who's an elemental mage told me how. First, make sure the vessel is one with a comfortable elemental imprint. If you're talking about empty glass bottles, then you're probably after air fairies, right? 'cause the bottle would be filled with air. Fire fairies are more popularly put in lamps because lamps carry fire-- if they are in a bottle, it probably held something flammable like liquor or perfume.
To tempt the air fairy into the bottle, bait with sponge cake. I think that was metaphorical... like, just make the vessel a place the fairy wants to be in, because it's still "in its element" as described above, but also that you can offer it a far better life than it would have living wild.
Say, to tempt an ocean fairy to come back inland with you and live in a shell, offer it something more exciting than making currents and foam-- (it better be something REALLY good, 'cause it's leaving the Ocean to live in an awful dry apartment) like telling love stories every night in exchange for it helping you with healing. I've heard earth fairies bound to clay pots or geodes give wisdom but take memories as payment, which sounds kind of purpose-defeating but ok. I wouldn't know what air and fire fairies would like... intelligence and power, perhaps? Honor? Energy?
You could bind them by the command of their ruler's name (King Paralda, I think it is, for Air,) or by the corresponding names of the God and angels (which come to think of it could be rulers and fairies of the sphere of Spirit.) But I think it would probably be easier for both to make the vessel a telephone for all the fairies of an element from an area, instead of home for just one... but if you want to keep just one, you ought to set the parameters in the vessel like "stay as long as the vessel is intact" or "allow the vessel to hold like a home, but not trap." Then it can leave whenever.
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