The Fairies: A History - Mythillogical Podcast 

Drinking game!! Whenever Charles says "they're often associated with the colour green" take a hearty swig. 🍻

0:00 - 5:55: Intro and backstory 6:00: Modern and traditional fairies 15:33: Fae sections and resources 21:30: Charle's fare part: Early mordern period 46:03: Charle's fare part 2: Modern fairy collections 50:31 Charle's fare part 3: Fairy traits and traditions + Pixies 1:01:30 ; Flavorful Fairy related creatures 1:19:20 :Crofty's over the border section 1:48:41 ; Crofty's 2nd fae border 2:41:03 Duo on the ending passages 3:31:19 Fae closing remarks *If this gets 50+ likes, I'll ass in the speific fairy types for each part in order.*

Regarding if banshee is a fairy or not, the Irish spelling is bansidhe, or ban Sidhe, which literally translates to fairy woman, ban mean woman and Sidhe is fairy

I tell my nieces that fairies used to be tall and could not fly. Then they discovered fairy dust, which made them little and let them fly. This lets me tell them older fairy stories.

My favourite part of Bram Stoker's Dracula is when he peers through that window and says: "Dude! Let me in. I'm a fairy... What? Don't you believe in fairies!?" -- Also, thanks for another great video 🖤

The fairy wife who leaves when the husband does something wrong is very similar to Japan's Yuki-onna or France's Melusine. Would love for a future episode to compare fairy stories from around the world, but I appreciate that's a lot of even more work 😅

Re: disneyfication of stories: Bambi. Bambi was written by Felix Salten in the twenties as an anti-hunting treatise. The chapter where Bambi's father dies is very traumatizing to small children. Disney cleaned it up to an incredible degree for the movie and it still makes children cry.

I recognize a similarity between that Welsh story of the woman leaving her husband and a Japanese one: A man is saved in a snow storm by a beautiful woman. She spares his life and says that if he tells anyone what happened, she will return to kill him. Later on, he marries another beautiful woman. Years go by and they have children (I believe they have three children as well), until one night he begins reminiscing to her as their children sleep. He is reminded by the woman's appearance from his wife. His wife reveals herself to be the woman in the snow, and cannot bring herself to kill him, so she resorts to leave.

Also I really appreciated that you mentioned that fairies or at least "energies" that seem similar appear all over the world and you made the choice to focus on where you would be able to access the information in a language that you speak.

It's fascinating how certain beings/creatures that were originally considered quite malevolant by pre Christian & early Christian societies evolved in pop culture as child friendly fantasy. Mermaids, Unicorns, Faeries(The Fae), Elves, etc. My inro to faeries was probably Disney? You mentioned Tinkerbell & there was also Cinderella with a Fairy Godmother & Pinochio had The Blue Fairy.

Good things come to those who wait. This will be grand. Thank you.

I'm surprised why you did not mention Eddie Lenihan at all in your section on Ireland. He has the largest private collection of Irish fairy stories recorded from the 70's up until today and the man has a podcast here on RU-vid as well as several books on Irish fairy folklore.

Tinker Bell did also try to kill Wendy in the Disney movie, though Disney doesn't tend to bring it up in her modern appearances.

Watched the entire thing and found it quite lovely to learn this history! I had to watch it over 3 days off and on, but it was a great treat!

I enjoy listening to these longer episodes on long drives. I also want to add that there is a North American entity called the Kushtaka that resembles early faery myths, particularly the dead who join the fey rather than suffer a mortal death.

Who else been obsessed with fairies as a girl because they’re definitely real or something

In France we do not have a tooth fairy but a mouse of the tooth. A litle magical mouse who trade tooth for money under the pillow.

I have a great knack for finding four leaf clovers. I’ve found hundreds & hundreds over the years, no exaggeration. At one place I lived there was a three by three patch of grass & clovers that was always filled with four leaf & even five & six leaf clovers. I collected hundreds there alone over the two years I lived there. Anyway as a kid I would dig under every four leaf clover I found searching for the leprechaun underneath. I swear as a kid I saw one once (I mean kid self me swore I did). I was amazed by leprechauns but I never believed the teachers in school when the school leprechaun messed up the room. I believed they played little tricks on us individually instead & I often thought they were messing with me.

Very beautiful scenery of the highlands and Scottish countryside segment and of the lakes and horses thank you very much . A well prepared,presented, professional Production once again Thank you both and your support staff! 2:54:54

I was told by a lady from The Isle of Man that it is impolite to call them “ fairies”. They call them “ The little folk”.

Charles!!!!! Thank you!!! I was just telling my friends about your channel a few hours ago and then here you are, uploading 3 hours on fairies, God bless you

I've seen both the Tinker Bell looking kind of fairy and the Bean-Sidhe (Banshee) type of fairy. I've never seen the Cat-Sidhe...but we we still leave milk out for him every Halloween as is custom. One year I forgot to leave the milk out because I celebrated away from home that year....and our farm blighted that year! Dead crops and still born claves. So I'll always leave that milk out now no matter what.

oh finally! I've been waiting for this one since day 1! Thank you guys!!!

Never clicked so fast

Charles and Crofty are awesome! Thanks for such amazing content! If you guys ever need a 3rd member to the team let me know! I could do work behind the scenes!

I just listened to the Mindshock podcast a very interesting episode about the Celtic Otherworld, 2 hours of fairy mithology just like this! Awesome to see this one appear now!

heck yesss, I've been hoping for you to cover fairies * - * I will watch this as soon as I finish my damn term paper

i’ve been wanting and patiently waiting this topic since the podcast began !!! it’s a little mini hyperfixation for me rn as well so literally perfect timing 💗

Congrats on finishing this - can't wait for part 2!

thank you - i appreciate listening & learning my Grandmother - Sarah Ellen Colton - her mother came from Ireland in the south - she was Lutheran too - and before she died - she spent a month visiting Ireland and the town my Granny Elsie came from in south Ireland --- maybe one day i'll get to visit Ireland 🇮🇪💚🤍🧡☘️

The only example I can think of in the Zelda series of fairies giving physical items is in Link to the Past where a specific fairy fountain upgrades items that you throw into it. This is refined in Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom where the Great Fairies upgrade your clothing. That specific instance is based on an (I think originally Greek) story about a woodsman who drops his axe into a pool, and the nymph who lives there offers him a silver or gold axe. When he honestly answers that they aren't the axe he lost, she rewards him by letting him keep all three. So there's nothing to do with traditional fairy folklore in that usage. (There's also the Great Fairy Sword in Majora's Mask, but that feels like a pure video game invention)

Enjoyed the episode and can certainly appreciate the effort you took to produce it. I can't cite the source ("The Mabinogion"?) but I distinctly remember reading a story about Queen Mab being the reason Caridwen's son , Morvan, was so hideous. (Don't remember if Mab used magic to make him hideous or if Morvan was a changeling). I just remember Mab was in a snit. Since I was researching Taliesin I didn't pay close attention to Morvan's backstory. As Shakespeare often "borrowed" plots & stories, it's not a stretch to imagine he might have heard or read about Queen Mab prior to his mentioning her in "Romeo and Juliet". Do we know where Shelley first heard about Queen Mab?

I just found your channel yesterday and I think I found a 💎. Greetings from Oregon 🇺🇸

The moment I seen this my day got much much better.

An interesting tidbit... Before the Peter Pan novel, Wendy was not a common name. It was only afterwards people started naming their children such. Much like Lovecraft trying to insert Pabodie into names, in place of Peabody, except that attempt didn't take hold.

Its peculiar how eerily similar these tales about the fairies such as the wife returning to the lake with her dowry are to ancient Finnish folk tales.

Ronald Hutton is the man!

Just found your podcast and it is already my favorite! I hope there are many, many more to come

These are always done so well, folklore is so awesome!!

Would love to see an (3 hour) episode on Morgan le Fay.

It is not only superstition .... fable and or myth .....this is not a simple, or ficticious story for children to fall asleep with. . I have only just started this video but am impressed with the scope and quality of the research done and the resulting wealth of context and knowlefge that is shared with us here.. It is appreciated. Interesting about the aversion of Iron that is a known charecteristic with many examples in the traditional storys and wisdom of the Fair Folk. But this also shows up in a seemingly different subject ..... of the UFO Lights Craft and Beings. There is several instances of overlap .... or cross connecting charecterisrics that are suprising to some and commonly assumed by others. ( I just heard the part about a Puka (?) and upon leaving the house for the night it Slaps the door VERY hard and the boy says he thought the whole place would crash down to the ground ..... Sasquatch does this to cabins and homes and with similar force that all the things hung on the wall will fall off and the entire place will shake with the amount of energy it is done with often. Nor sure if that is the same activity or done for the same purpose but the amount of overlap that shows up it would not suprise me ..... just saying .... its all over these topics. The vocalizations of all of them have a 4 or 5 octave quality of resonating tones that carries great distances and has strange qualities like vibrating organs and rattling ribcages from long distances. It causes animals to either silence themselves in a shakey state or go ballistic. Sirens call men into the sea and their death ... sasquatch is able to damage organs and it is thought to likely be able to cause death if closer up .... banshees wailing .... the disembodied whuspers and manic laughter that carries on the wind or with the mists and fog .... it is similar resonant tonal quality that was used to lift move and craft the Mega Lith structures all over earth. I used to think that the giants and beings of the time were using a technology to produce the acoustic sound that was used to do these wonders .....recently have become aware that they did in fact use their own body ... skull structure and sinus cavity along with their capability of hitting the multi octaves is what did most if not all the needed sound production ) Sorry got away from my subject / question ..... but ... It really points towards the 'Alien' being not as alien as has been portrayed in the modern narrative in my opinion. They all have this dislike or fear or find iron to be poisonous , caustic somehow. And there is a general importance given to genetics ... family bloodline lineage .... the focus on relations to have children or offspring or the collection of gemetic materials / fluid and cells from both animals and plants and obviously from us as well. There is more that is observed from the groups being highly similar .... but my point is .... Is it just the mask that shifts over time as needed or for whatever reason chosen as how the spirits or beings present themselves to humans over the ages? It seems as though there is a type of being that is somewhat opposed to us .... uses us in ways for its own motivations ... and is deceptive about its doing so along with its own true idenfity and nature. I wonder what they may have presented themselves as prior to the Fae .... if there was a prior to that at all. There is alot of tradition of them being the Fallen or having been what became of the Fallen having caused offspring to be born with women and those spirits that were caused to remain here with us as they cannot go to the heavens in the afterlife and have not been judged or cast down to the lower realms.

Great episode as always gents, I also appreciate the effort put into trying the welsh words - not an easy undertaking for non natives!

Dresden Files is one of my favorite series of books, very glad to see it mentioned! :D

My favourite part of Bram Stoker's Dracula is when he peers through that window and says: "Dude! Let me in. I'm a fairy... What? Don't you believe in fairies!?"

Im always so happy when Jim Butchers works are brought up 😂❤

I’m dressing as a sugarplum fairy for Halloween 🧚‍♀️

Thank you both 😊

Great content! Thank you for all your work on this video. ❤

That's an amazing video! Thanks for sharing this awesomeness with us

Great stuff - thanks for doing this guys! Much appreciated! 🙂

Fantastic

Very food practical determination of interpretation on past writing. 100% love it only after 28 minutes in. ❤

I'm entranced you guys! 🥰 I'm so happy you included the Formorians. They intermarried, have the giant Basalt walkway named after them. I'm tingling with delight.

Really enjoyed your presentation! Thank you for your efforts!

Love the visual format, and the podcast as well of course but the video reel and frame looks great

Thank you for this! It is wonderful! ❤ 🧚‍♂️

Wonderful work again chaps thanks 👍

Time for another flood of new age type recommendations because I watched this, I guess. Worth it!

Thank you for this excellent video! I enjoyed listening to nearly all of it, and it makes me want to read some fairy stories again. I was reminded of Lanval a few times; I may have to give it a go soon. God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

Wow, this is the exact study of my dnd vtt liveplay i post on youtube. Much inspiration from what you have previously covered, but heres the good stuff. Waited with bated breath.

keep going gents. 1 million subs round the corner

I would have liked more illustrations and text, as a multifaceted learner, and an American. I know you guys worked long and hard in this topic, and it is wonderful, that is why I think it deserves an upgrade.

Thank for this! 💜

Watching this made me recognise the notable fairy inspirations that Brandon Sanderson draws on for the 'spren' creatures in his Stormlight Archives series! Similar to fairies, spren are bound by rules made between them and humans, and they will leave you by cause of those rules. Most notably, some spren can take the form of small humans who float without the use of wings. Spren also have correlations with eastern folklore, and it's great to see how he used aspects from each mythology to create something entirely unique!

This video is published and I suddenly know what I'm doing this afternoon, listening to Charles' duclet tones.

Comment for the algorithm, this episode was great!! been excited for it ever since the hint at the end of the last one

i watched the whole thing, and my high school drama teacher wasn't mentioned once. complete history, my foot!

Great video thanks.

great story telling voice, thank you

You’re channel is great cause it’s just the facts. No bs. I have a request… can you please do a video on blemmys. Headless men? That should be interesting with the headless horseman here in NY Sleepy hallow. The stories are incredible. Dogmen would be a good one too.🤔 But blemmy is an intriguing discussion. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Your efforts are much appreciated 🙏☯️

Great episode!!

In the Disney movie, tinkerbell almost got the lost boys to kill Wendy

Did I already listen to the podcast episodes of this? Yes. Am I also going to listen to this while at work today? Also yes.

Great stuff! They loved it down at the bottom of my garden.

28:59 1888 recruiting for the Third Crusade? He must've found a way into fairyland, because those are some time travel shenanigans...

For the tooth fairy (She) is known in Germany as “Zahnfee” (tooth fairy) known for the same things as in England (but at least in my family she is not really described but more carried by other descriptions of fairy’s) in my imaginations she is a white coloured fairy with wings, she’s got a bag where she keeps the teeth and one with coins (which transform into the correct amount of money under the pillow) she is able to change her own size to fit into smaller spaces but is mostly in her pretty much human (child) sized form. She mostly works alone on outside missions but got a Treebase in the woods where she has some helpers mostly male. Thanks to this video I actually thought a bit more of my own image of the tooth fairy and it’s quite interesting Love this type of content and even more your voices

So glad you are still making videos. I haven't seen one in far too long. Which means it's time to binge.

No tooth fairy in France... we have the "little mouse" instead 🐀❤ But she does the same thing, take the tooth and leaves you a little gift instead😊

This is so interesting !!!

3 hours on the Fae. SUBSCRIBED😂❤!

Hi there from Germany, Lower Saxony to be more precise. Here the Tooth Fairy is a thing as well, but they're leaving little trinkets instead of money if you leave your tooth under your cushion. For me my older sister did the job.

Excellent post

I always wondered why my tooth fairy didn't like me. 20 cents, 50 cents tops. Other kids were getting $1 or $2. Just because my parents were not rich, the tooth fairy gave the rich kids more.. How freaking unfair is that? Don't trust her kids.

Current Anannaki script has beings such as fairy elves and other creatures that worked for the gods collecting the h Gold.

Interested in the Changeling issue. In recent times people have been accused of being fairey changlings. It went to court.

I like to tell my nephews that the tiny flower petals that fall from our garden are “fairy poops”

2:45:08 Google gave you a bad translation. The tombstone translates as "Light of the Irish Language"

I was a mermaid in another lifetime, so I can't wait for the episode on mermaids! I love all of your content-- thank you for compiling each of these discussions.

What a well put together documentary... i love informing people of the fae and in fact have used that as my name since i was 11 online... greenfaerie

Going home late last night Suddenly I got a fright I look through a window and surprised what I saw Fairies wear boots dancing with a dwarf

you guys unlocked such a memory for me T-T i dont know who told me it but i learned about the farmer and the fairy when i was little

Check out the mothman from Virginia USA. It almost reminds me of your description of a fairy. The mothman is bigger tho

This idea that "people believed in this stuff more in the past" is really interesting. It's an unfalsifiable idea that creates permission to continue passing these stories around more as a matter of heritage than something anyone ever actually much believed in. You see something similar carrying on to today as a sort of explanation for why it is things like gods used to communicate with people in the past but no longer appear to. It also ties into that obnoxious reverence for the past many people seem to carry around. As though those past people were much more spiritually aware/tuned into nature/ritually pure or whatever.

Thanks for your efforts as usual. well done episode. Please do more Japanese stuff.

someone else has probably said this already but bannock exists in alot of indigenous cultures, including acorss north america !

28:58 Did you say Gerald of Wales went on his tour of Wales in _1888?_ Surely it was _1188._ Giraldus Cambrensis died around 1223 or so.

i absolutely love these videos and they’re very informal! is there a way you can make a video on cannibalism? its become a interesting topic of mine and i would love to hear more info from this channel!

In regards to holding on to an enemy while they shapeshift, in Tolkien as the mortal Beren is being rescued a massive hound holds Sauron by the throat as he tries to shapeshift in an attempt to escape the hounds grip. It’s fun to hear some of the potential sources that may have helped serve as Tolkiens inspiration for some things.

My grandfathers name was Elven!