If you want to see fairies, look up "The Cottingley Fairies". The story of two girls who took photographs of fairies. Real photographs, examined by experts.
It was the greatest hoax of the 20th century! Thousands of people still believe it all!
"Feragnosis, what you have posted reads as though straight out of the 15th century. Have we learnt nothing since then?"
Yes, because my praxis (traditional hedgewitchcraft) draws heavily from the beliefs of the cunningfolk and witches of the early modern period (14th century to the 18th), in which they, those common folk whom practiced and lived in the British Isles and Scandinavia were still largely influenced by folk beliefs and the animistic worldviews that existed before Christianity.
If you want to doubt fairies exist, feel free. But criticizing the paradigm I share, especially when it draws from folklore and folk magic, doesn't seem very, I dunno, well aimed?
"It was the greatest hoax of the 20th century! Thousands of people still believe it all!"
I'm not sure the relevence my discussion of folkloric beliefs & the folklore of the early modern period (and undoubtedly prior eras) has to do that of the time when we had black and white photography depicting a hoax, fairies that were well documented to be the byproduct of Victorian romanticization.
First of all. The fae do not fly about wearing cute clothing and if you ever told a real one that, they're likely to teach you a lesson you'll never forget!
If you are interested in the real fae, I suggest the book "The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries" by Evans Wentz which is in the public domain and can be found 100% free legally online.
I am going to say in advance, this is not being rude or mean by any point of view, it is being truthful.
You can not complete a spell in order to change your DNA. You are human. You are you. There is no question about it. Turning yourself into a fairy, vampire, werewolf, or any other creature is impossible. Your view on fairies is also very unrealistic. I'm sorry but it can not be done.
Feragnosis, I was recommending "The Cottingley Fairies" to the original young girl asking about fairies wearing "cute clothes".
When I asked "have we learnt nothing", I was meaning the whole Human Race. Traditions and customs are fine, but they can get you "bogged down" in the past, when the world was flat,when the Sun rose in the East, and volcanoes erupted when God was angry.
"The moving finger writes,
And having writ, moves on."
We cannot go back in time and say what was true then is also true now! That's why I said your post was "out of the 15th century".
Of course there is ancient "wisdom", but those people did not have the knowledge we have now. WhiteRaven is correct, there is a lot of "New Age" garbage. There is a heck of a lot of "Old" garbage as well!
OK, if you can't be one maybe you can see one. The ones I am familiar with are tree sprites and water sprites. They live in old gnarled trees or around freshwater streams, swamps, ponds, and lakes. If the old gnarled tree is on the edge of a stream or whatever even better. They sometimes come down at dawn to bathe in the dew. They can be seen on a full moon or on one of the Sabbats. They are malevolent and dangerous little creatures who are easily angered. They don't like to be seen so beware. Take a friend or two with you. It's as much fun as hunting Snipe.
Well, I don't mean to come off as rude, and I respect you and I can see why you'd hope to become a fairy.
Yes, spells to summon fairies do work with the right energy, magick, intent, and concentration, as well as other conditions. A spell to become a fairy doesn't work, though. I am sorry and I mean no offense.
Wearing cute clothes and acting like a fairy, as well as looking like a fairy, is a great idea and I think that if you want you should go for it! But becoming an actual fairy? I don't think it'd work.
However, you should try contacting/summoning fairies or faeries (the correct term, in my humble opinion, is fairy, plural being fairies.) It could work, but becoming one might not work, I'm sorry.
I hope I helped honestly without being rude or disrespectful. Bright blessings!
