I was told that while you must never thank or pay the Brownies, they do like compliments, so you can say things like "I've never tasted better butter than this!"
I really love how Brian Froud's version of fae has become the standard. When he started illustrating in the 70's, his work just looked bizarre. Nobody had ever envisioned them looking like that. Now everyone seems to see them that way. Talk about influential, and without even having a famous name! It's been very satisfying to see. :)
Brian Froud and Alan Lee's fairy illustrations from Fairies I believe really reconnected us to how older communities experienced them, wilder, more nature inspired. And they've influenced both of us so much, and our colleagues and friends in the fairy art world. And they are both really lovely fellows too, very humble and kind. I often miss living so close to Dartmoor where they both, and others of our artistic friends, live... we have wonderful memories of all hanging out on Dartmoor all together and plan to revisit very often. And go fairy spotting!!
Oh - this was SO lovely to watch and listen to! My partner has been recently diagnosed with terminal Cancer, and I am feeling SO low, I needed something to escape the horror of it all - and this was just medicine! Thank You!
Thank you so much for the kind words. I am so pleased and humbled that my narration and research managed to give you some comfort... even if just for a little while. Sending you my very best thoughts, and to your partner also of course.
Amazing video, really appreciate the personal touches you add! One of my favourite interpretations of the feyfolk is The Spiderwick Chronicles. They do a really good job at making the creatures seem real and believable but still very magical.
Glad you enjoyed it! Oh yes, Spiderwick is brilliant, we have that book. Have you ever seen Faeries of the Faultlines by our friend Iris Compiet? I think you would like that book as well. It has an atmosphere of Spiderwick and Froud and Lee's Faeries.... but very much in her own style :)
@@talesoffeyandfolk oh wow this book somehow slipped under my radar haha, the illustrations are amazing, just the kind of book I have been looking for! Thanks for the recomendation!
First time I have seen one of your videos. It was very beautiful and informative. I would love to learn more about the other household fairies you mentioned at the end. Thank you.
Thank you. I think yes.. I need to do another household Faerie creature episode next year. I keep finding more and more stories of them so there will definitely be enough to create one :)
Note: Boggarts aren't all evil or bad. Some can be helpful and even good-hearted. But you really do *NOT* want to cross them! Secondly, boggarts are *not* amorphous ghost-like beings that take the form of your greatest fears, as depicted in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Not sure where Ms. Rowling got that idea. She seems to be describing *boggies*, but not boggarts. Boggarts are typically goblins, although some ghost-like beings are also called "boggarts". Some boggarts start out as brownies/hobgoblins and can become boggarts if/when offended, disrespected or angered. I've been studying fairy-lore since I was 11 years old, so I know my stuff, well. 🙂
Totally agree, during my childhood I lived very close to Boggart Hole Clough for many years and this was my first introduction to Faerie lore. The kids and adults of all the area had a wariness of the Clough even though the original Boggart of the Clough tale had been in the 1800s, even in the 1970s and 80s the fear of the Boggart was still rife. Years later as an adult I studied folklore especially British and Irish folklore, and later after that married a folklorist, folklore researcher writer and artist. Both of us specialise in Northern European Faerie lore, we are obsessed with it! I have an episode about Boggarts where I go into the subject with much more depth, there was only so much I could go into here, but that episode covers the transformation of Brownies, Hobs, Lobs etc into Boggarts. It also gives many examples from Northern England (where I am from) of places where Boggarts occurred and some still do. For all their poltergeist-like scariness I do have a soft spot for Boggarts, probably because where I am from, Lancashire, has so much Boggart folklore. :)
@@talesoffeyandfolk -- Thank you for the reply. 🙂 Well it helped that I dated a woman from Yorkshire who did live in Lancashire for about 6-7 years (I'm Irish/American) and she too was very interested in fairy-lore., especially in England, Ireland and Scotland. She and I traded research and I learned so much from her. Her research wasn't the watered down fairy-revisionist stuff most people are spoon-fed, these days. This was the real deal. It was from her I learned that (particularly in the earliest tales) most goblins, including brownies and hobgoblins were said to be of about human-size (which shocked me, because I had always thought they were only a few inches tall 😄) and while many were indeed said to be dwarf-like some were as large as any human. The Brownie of Blednoch was a good example of this, as well as other legends. I also learned that the brownie and hobgoblin were basically the same creature, just called by different names, depending on their geographical location. But still, for all that I've learned, I discover new things that I didn't know about the Fey, even to this day and I am entering old age now. 😄
@@grimscraggletag6799 Honestly I don't we ever stop learning about them do we, each area has its own variation and yet huge similarities as well so we can kind of trace the routes the stories took as they were passed from family to family, village to village. I guess the thing with the Good Folk is the more you learn about them the less we know haha! The whole subject is just fascinating, and such an important part of our social and oral history. I don't know if you've ever read or listened to any Eddie Lenihan with his collected folklore and Faerie sightings from Eire? He is fabulous and the work he's doing is so important in Faerie folklore preservation. He's got a RU-vid channel with some of his work, but the books are just brilliant. 😊 best and smiles, Kelly :)
Should ANY _Brownies_ wish to take up residence in my home and clean, WELCOME ABOARD! I will NOT name or thank you. AND I walk around _nekkid_ most of the time while at home -- other than wearing eyeglasses and a wristwatch -- so THAT ASPECT is PERFECTLY OKAY by me...😊
Hi there, thank you for your comment, to be honest I don't know if one can attract a Brownie, they seem to attach to a place or family... I guess of their own accord. Are they related to the littles? I have never heard this term, but if Littles are found doing household chores in homes or farms, and can turn wicked if insulted, then yes, they will be. :)
