Elves and fairies explained | History & folklore of faery + why we love fairycore + fairy paganism 

This is all the confirmation anyone ever needed that I’m a total nerd 😂✨ Tell me, who’s your favourite fairy/elf in legend or fiction?

Tolkien’s elves are my most FAVORITE interpretation of elves. Absolutely amazing beings

I love how in depth you go into etymology and historical context! so many fantasy/mythology videos only talk about myths themselves and not as much about the context around them. For me that gave everything you said more weight.

That Waterhouse printed bodice is outstanding 😎

Great video, a very inspiring summery. Also, the impatient porteño scream at the end was really unexpected.

so happy you decided to make this channel honestly. there aren't enough RU-vidrs out there with this kind of content and delivering with such good quality too!! I can't wait to witness your journey, and to learn from you

I am just watching Peter Pan, and I played The Legend of Zelda yesterday. Both very fitting characters!

I've never sat through a video about Elves and Fairies, I'm glad I sat through yours, very insightful!

Great video! I would love more info on the old folkloric roots of fairies! I recently read "Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries" by Heather Fawcett, which is a fantasy novel written as the research notes/journal of the fictional Emily Wilde, an expert on faeries in a world where they truly exist. I mention this because the protagonist starts off by discounting the dangerous side of faeries, but their darker side comes more and more to the front as the book goes on. The book is set in the early 1900s. Given the info you provided in your video, I think it might have been a deliberate choice on the author's part to start with the Victorian disenchanted and child-friendly view of the fairies, and then peel back the layers to the older, enchanted, dangerous version underneath. Anyway, you might enjoy the book, and I am loving your videos and eager to learn more about the folkloric and mythological roots of fairies!

Only the second video I have watched but I am completely enthralled by your videos. They are delightly presented, highly informative, and intelligently researched. You are gifted :-) Thank you for an outstanding time while learning so much, so cool!

Apperently i shouldnt watch this at night. both the music for when the burial mounds reapeared, and the danger with tolkien fairy picture with the speech really scared me. Good video!! just scared me being alone at night with headphones

Just found your channel this morning, love what you are doing. You know there are a lot of other cultures that also have stories of the faye, in the America's the native cultures (Indians) speak of a large variety of the little people and nature spirits. The Polynesian cultures have stories about the Min eh hune as well as a large variety of nature spirits. Stories I think you will find interesting. Keep

i’m can’t express how happy i am to have come across your channel. i’m a 21 mexican-american (born and raised in the states) traveling in ireland for the first time on a month long school trip and this was such a great window into the aspects of folklore that had such a big role in my decision to come here

What an extremely fascinating subject. I have also always loved folktales and only recently noticed these aesthetics so it is really interesting to find out your thoughts on this xx

I'm so happy I found your channel! This is exactly what I was looking for! I would love to see more videos exploring celtic mythology.

Dear Alma thank you for this very well done and explained video ! it was so interesting, can't wait to learn more about folktales.

I am so happy to be checking this wonderfully informative video, as I love the fae and elves endlessly.

wow... that is totally a doctorate level explanation ... I am so impressed. Well done!!

Beautifully done!! So pleased to have found your channel!! Jason in England x

This is the first video of yours I've watched, but I already like it. I also love your voice

These videos are wonderful, Alma. I only just realized you'd started them!

Incredible work. A great historical chronicling

Thank you, would love to hear more about fairy lore and myth in general.

This is inspirational. Thank you for this video. I hope you stay well.

Excellent présentation ! I don't usually comment on these types of videos but you have thoroughly explained and developped some longing questions I had about Fairy Lore. Thanks. I may be late to your show, but I'm now following your channel. Stay cute :)

Adorable and informative. Always a winning combination.

This was a wonderful presentation. Thank you so much. Keep rockin

I don’t know how I found this channel but I’m loving it also loving the ears 🌞

Thanks for making such an educational but interesting video!!! V cool stuff :)

I very much enjoyed your content although the presentation felt sometimes choppy on the edit. You have a very pleasant tone and your accent is a lovely & exotic well enunciated variant. Very informative and thought provoking, while somewhat pedantic, but despite that, you have an innate charisma that feels magical enough to keep us engaged. Looking forward to more content, I’ll stay tuned! Kudos and best of luck as this project develops! …and you have a beautiful smile! Good to see it!

Wonderfully informative video! Thank you.

Fascinating approach to analyse the relation of the myth arround elves and society 🧚‍♀️

Thank you that was very informative and entertaining. I learned a lot.

so happy to have found your channel I was watching a lot from High Elven Wisdom and Love... and Elven Scholar ..there is not much out there i look forward to see your video Merry meet fae blessings 🙏

Such a great video please make more

I like it! Congratulations my dear!

Thank you so very much for this explained history 🤗😁☺️😁

Irish and European folklore is fascinating and interesting been interesting even as a kid growing up

Yes please go indepth into the types of Fey

Please make more videos! I am particularly interested in the huldufolk

Nice video! Fun and informative

Awesome vid, Very enjoyable!

Love your stories adding a little comedy to them ...so Sweet ...Fairy..🧚‍♂️ Princess. ❤

Dang you went deep, interesting analysis

What were the sources that you used in this video? I'm in a creative drive at the moment and so I've been looking into fairies and folklore that talks about them to help me in creating characters. One of the books that I'm reading that is a wealth of information and imagery is _Good_ _Faeries_ / _Bad_ _Faeries_ by Brian Froud who also wrote a book subtly titled _Faeries_ . He's an award-winning illustrator and author who was a concept designer for The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. If you browse through the pages of either books, you can immediately tell by the illustrations how alike they are. Also I had been looking away when you spoke the last bit of the outtakes and I thought you said something in Gaelic, but when I checked you put on that it was Spanish.

You are a beautiful RU-vid content creator your storylines are beautiful

I agree! I appreciate you taking the extra time. I appreciate you being a nerd, it is important. And personally, It's attractive to me.🔥 An Irish/Dane🌱

PLEASE MAKE A MERMAID VERSION OF THIS

These stories are awesome and interesting.

I also would love to hear your ideas about the stratification of masculine/feminine roles in the mythology surrounding the hidden people. Seems like you have some very compelling stuff you're alluding to...

Great presentation, great information

Thank you for sharing your knowledge about the legends... It's a lot of info for me to catch up..... Right now... But definitely will grab on to all of it Thank you so so much.... This was something I was waiting to find❤🙏 Alwyn = Elf+Wine(Friend) = a friendly elf🙂 Try to understand about Saturn.. in astrology.. N it reaching its home...Capricorn! Saturn is a significator of Tradition! You will know why there is a revival of the culture.. All over the world!

You have such a lovely voice🥰 hello from Canada 🇨🇦❤️

It's easy to say fairies aren't real until your tormented by one every night for 5 years of your childhood. People are still encountering them. When you understand that there is a multiverse and the possibility of there being 9, 12 or even infinite realities co existing parallel to our own mean that the chances of fairies being real far out weighs the the chances of them not existing. Not to mention the mountains of circumstantial evidence and the fact that cultures from all around the world have stories about them even before they started trading stories. Just because you have not experienced them, doesn't mean they aren't real, cause some of us have.

you are beautiful and I loved your videos very well researched I would love to know more about elves and fairies, I am from ecusdor and you gained a great fan

Should definitely include the bloopers after each video hahaha. Perhaps itstoo specific for a video, but i think a Galadriel analysis could be very interesting😁

Great video. Thank you.

So Fairies sometimes appear on Fridays. TGIF I suppose. 😂 Lovely video. This has helped me with my own fantasy series. It’s about Druids and has heavy ties with the Fae folk.

I'm a seasonal fairy lover ever since I was a girl I loved Thumbelina and Tinkerbell I (want to work with Think) it's absolutely magical here I am in my 30s just itching to dwell in fairy world and being one with nature

I love you and your story 😊

Thank you! Where exactly in Tolkien is that quotation from Tolkien you read at the end of the video?

All of these assorted types of beings which have been labled and clissified as "mythology" and "fantasy" are in fact different types of "aliens" (non human) which have shared this realm with us all along. Likewise with "giants" and many other types of creatures.

Tbh I wouldn’t compare elves to “queerness.” I’m a gay man and I don’t see it like that. I see it wayyy beyond our human concepts, including “gender nonconforming” since they aren’t human. We still try to make rules and labels for things when it’s not necessary 😅

I would love to meet a elf like you some day

Good day, Have you heard of fairies also called Albi ? I read this years ago but I cannot find the reference now? Or how does the word Albi fit in with Fairies. Thank you for your knowledge on this subject.

Flower fairies, pixies, and ‘little people’ do exist in earlier folklore but they where considered ‘low’ fae compared to the beautiful high, court fae

It reminds me of the 1st volume of a series of books I've read abt mythical creatures... Amos Daragon, the wearer of masks ith it would be in English

Adorable... will watch out for more

Excellent love this video, I wish you were near us to give a talk to our pagan group.

I enjoyed your video, well done! I noticed that there was an avoidance of reference to the sexual and attractiveness aspect of fairies and elves. Probably more evident in Victorian age and our present age including the beginning of the elvish enchantment which really gained momentum in the 1960's when Tolkien really gained popularity. It seems to me that there is today a distinct separation in presentation of fairies in particular. There are those that visualize them as child like and there are those that visualize them as beautiful female entities that are not only facially beautiful but have exceptionally attractive and slender, sensual female bodies and almost without exception long flowing hair. There are some notable exceptions for there also some that are female but exhibit some male characteristics (shorter hair, and a tomboyish look and actions as in fighting /battling). I am not sure what that may mean and if it is an outcome of the changes that are occurring in society. It does seem to me to worthy of investigation and exposure . Thank You for your work and sharing it with us.

Enjoyed.

¡Hola Alma! Me interesa mucho el tema de las hadas en general y me gustaría que me aconsejaras alguna lectura. ¡Saludos! Y gracias por tu vídeo 😊

Where did you find out all your info? I love fairy, elves, dragons, mermaids, etc. ❤🧚‍♀️🧜‍♀️

I think Gean Rottenberry used Eleves as prototype for Vulcans 🖖

Interesting video

That's a hard one to answer 😅, but i think I'd choose Galadriel😌

Your dress is awesome

ur so cool, id hang out in the library with u :)

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It may sound silly but there is a big debate over if fairies wear footwear/ boots in the music community. Could you by any chance answer this question for me? We are actually having LIVE STREAM online debates.

I I have many pictures of fairies of different types and sizes, some gnomes, trolls, an elf…

Its funny that here I hear elf is just replaced with fairy, and that Alfr is wholly norse, But with the books I got its pretty clear that the Aos Sí are Celtic, which is where fairy comes from. Elf comes from Germanic origins and spread through Frisia to the north and britain (makes sense since you share a common language family) and only were a later addition to the Norse myths with the great migration. I'm just looking around to see if what I learned is still correct. Probably not. kinda sad you didn't mention anything about the germanic side though. Especially since Wayland being in Frisia was in Germania. Wayland, Weyland, is where we got the words Weiland (pasture), weide and gewijd from. British has names like Elvis, Alfred, Albion. Now I am wondering what Elf names the North use.

Is there spiggan fairy and the other type elf and fairy race

I really like Irish and European folklore

Tolkien with his mythology is the equivalent of the all unifying theory so craved by scientists.

Mab, toward the end of the Arthurian Age knew the Fae were to be relegated to the past, to forget and be forgotten....so she fought against this concept, even though it was a doomed fight....

Παλαιὰ παροιμία ὅτι χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά ἐστιν. Excellent analysis! Greetings from Buenos Aires!

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May I ask which country are you from young lady, you accent to me sounds scandinavian but you are well versed in English and other languages I am sure :)

Just because the forest is cleared out and the ground paved .don't mean that everything that lived there is gone.you could be looking right at one but if you look with your mind and not your eyes you can't see it

Then there’s the counter to faeriecore… Dwarfmaxing!

What about the "Little People" in Native Indian Legends?

9:10 Wait hold up is Thomas the Rhymer just the meme question about Pinocchio? “Can he answer yes or no questions on the origin of life?” Where Pinocchio cannot tell a lie is he believes it to be true, Thomas the Rhymer could answer everything.

Oh, Friday today. I’ll avoid cemeteries and giving birth today! 😅

good job xD

The Lady of Shalot

Your ears are beautiful

You’re so beautiful✨

youre cute as i told you, believing in faêries us my secret since childhood and sooooo i'm with a greec godess sooooo you know maybe and will read this in time, very proud of this show and tell you keep struggle and maybe write, about the kama sutra, hihi!!!! just be yourself and trust them, then it's personnal writings here, hi to tinker bell and such views, lot's has been said, morgan (arthur's faëric knight and wizard) boy 2024 year of love, the initiative of yours is beauty, remember to keep this one cool, just lot of things i didn't know, and, i am my own gift, bisous, bonne chance dans la vie!

Oh in Cinderella there was not a fairy godmother. Two doves who where at her moms graves gave her the dress. Walt Disney and his animators made the fairy god mother.