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Attracting Faeries to your Garden:
So you want to attract some faery folk to your garden or home, but how? There are several ways to attract the wee folk to your home. First you need to decide what type of faery you hope to attract. If you hope to attract flower and garden faeries you need to have some of their favorite plants around. Some of these are: Foxgloves Fairy like to make their clothing from them. Ferns these make nice soft beds for the little guys. Apple and or Oak trees Fae often inhabit these trees. The oak is held sacred by many of them. Tulips the faery like to use the tulip bloom to put their babies to bed. Rosemary, heartsease, forget-me-nots are some others. While there are many others that fairy like these are some of their favorites. You can also build a little faery house from twigs, stones, crystals or other items found in nature. Put a crystal on the house to attract the faery to it. Place it in your garden and soon a faery may make it home. Faery are attracted to bright and beautiful things. Oh and very important, if you want to keep the wee folk around keep the cat out of the garden!

Attracting Faeries to Your House:
How to attract a house fairy? Fairy love honey cakes, honeyed milk or plain milk and sweet butter. Put some of the above in a bowl or plate and put outside on a stoop or in your kitchen. Don't be dismayed should you wake in the morning and find it still there. Though it may appear untouched, the fairy may have taken nourishment from the food's essence. They will often leave the food for their animal friends to enjoy. Most house fairy (elves, pixies, brownies) are very fussy about the homes they live in. It is important to keep your home clean and clutter free (sometimes they will lend a helping hand). They won't stick around long if you are a foul tempered person or unpleasant to animals and children. Most Fairies are offended by a spoken thank you. Leave them food or trinkets as thanks. One you've offended one of the wee folk they will leave and never return. Enjoy your small house guests. Most can be helpful and often playful. Some are quite fond of playing pranks. A happy home is a home with Fairy.


Fairy Food: When it comes to fairy food, we read stories to discover that mallow fruits are fairy cheeses, and dogwood fruits are pixie pears. Little cakes are another favorite fairy food, and if they are made with saffron, they are especially cherished since saffron is highly valued by fairies.

Fairy Pastimes: The most popular pastimes of fairies are music and dancing. At night the fairies would rise from their homes and come out to dance away the hours of darkness. They especially love to dance in the evening of the full moon. When the morning sun begins to rise, the fairies vanish.Many mortals were enticed by the beauty of dancing fairies and sought to watch them dance at night. But this was very dangerous, because if the fairies lured and trapped a mortal, the mortal could be forced to dance all night until they collapsed from exhaustion.Fairy music is more melodious than human music and there are many songs and tunes which are said to have originated from the fairies. Many pipers and fiddlers of Europe learned their songs from the fairies.

Fairy Plants:
Bluebells: Fairies are summoned to their midnight revels and dances by the ringing of these tiny flowers.
Primroses: Primroses are one key into fairyland. There is a German legend about a little girl who found a doorway covered in flowers, and when she touched it with a primrose, the door opened up, leading into an enchanted fairy castle.
Fern: Pixie fairies are especially fond of ferns. One story tells of a young woman who accidentally sat on a fern, and instantly a fairy man appeared and forced her to promise to watch over his fairy son and remain in fairyland for a year and a day.
Foxglove: The name "foxglove" came from the words "folk's glove." Folks referred to little people, or fairies. One legend says that fairies gave the blossoms to foxes to wear as gloves so they would not get caught raiding the chicken coop. According to another legend, if you picked foxglove, you would offend the fairies. And if the fairies stole your baby, the juice of the foxglove would help to get it back. In some stories, foxglove appears as a fairy's hat. Foxglove can sometimes heal and sometimes hurt. It is a poisonous plant, but it is also used as medicine to treat heart disease.
Mushrooms: Used by fairies as tables and stools.
The species Amanita is the red and white mushrooms very poisonous....
Ragwort, cabbage stalks, grass and straw: all of these were used by fairies for transportation in the same manner as a witch uses a broom.
Saffron Crocus: The stamens from this fall flowering crocus constitute the herb saffron. Any food prepared with saffron is a favorite fairy food. Saffron used as a dye will turn cloth a royal gold. Such cloth is very valuable to fairies.

Foxgloves Fairies like to make their clothing from them. Ferns these make nice soft beds for the little guys. Apple and or Oak trees are often inhabited by the Fae. The oak is held sacred by many of them. Tulips: the faery like to use the tulip bloom to put their babies to bed. Rosemary, heartsease, forgetmenots are some others. While their are many others that fairy like these are some of their favorites.

Faery Music:
The Faery are known for their love of music and dance. Their music is said to bewitch humans. To sleep above a faery raithe (their home in the ground) it is said to leave you haunted for life by the beautiful sound. Men are known to have gone mad fore they could not rid their minds of the fairy tune.
It is also known that should you come upon a fairy raid or party and you hear the music you will start dancing. You will dance until you finally die from sheer exhaustion. On the other hand Fairy are often lured by the sound of beautiful music. If you come upon a Leprechaun, play music. He will dance his way to his gold. If you stop the music he will stop dancing and disappear. While there are some fae that dislike music, the majority love it. Many are quite good musicians. So if you hear a haunting, lilting melody deep in the woods and your feet are urged to dance you may have been bewitched by fairy music.

Faeries for Spells:

Learn what faerys are good for different spell workings.
Protection of your home: Fu dog, BeanTighe, elves, brownies, pixies, Kolbalds, Geancanach
Prosperity: Leprechauns, gnomes
Protection and healing of animals: elves, gnomes, Leprechauns (they especially love horses), zips, brown men, brownies, Twlwwyth Tegs, BeanTighe
Protection and healing of people: Beantighe, gnomes, elves, heaven dogs, chili, fu dog, Dinnshenchas, brownies
Lost Objects: Knockers, merfolk, gnomes, elves
Protection of enviornment: gnomes, elves, Merfolk, undines, Water guardians, dryads, sylphs
Love spells: Nymphs, Moerare
Fertlity: Moerare, Beantighe, gnomes

There are countless number of spells that fae could be useful. Make sure that when you call them that you honor and respect them. Stay within a sacred circle. Be sure to know all you can about any faery you try to work with. Understand that most faery are wary of humans and they may choose not to help if they don't feel you are sincere. Should they choose not to help honor their decision. The faery can be powerful allies and delightful friends.

Meeting a Fairy: To meet fairys you can start with meditation. Do this within a sacred of magik circle. Take a gift with you as an offering. If a fairy seems unfriendly or makes you uncomfortable leave them. You can also invite fairys to your circle when performing magik. If you want to invite a house fairy in leave milk, sweetcakes w/ honey out. They will often leave the food but take of the essence. Make sure you don't have a cat about.
Finally it takes practice and patience to see or meet a fae. They are usually shy and mistrusting. They will not show themselves readily to you. Children can often see them better than adults because they are more open and sensitive. Don't be suprised if your child's imaginary friend is really a faery. Some may never see the faery but trust they are all around. Let them know that you are a friend. Just be safe, some faery are mischevious and capricous while others are down right dangerous.

Plants to Break Fairy Spells:
Fourleaf clover: It has the power to break fairy spells and, if carried in one's hat, allows one to see invisible fairies.
Thyme: Drinking a potion of thyme is supposed to enable a person to see fairies, while at the same time protecting them from fairy mischief.
Calendula: This is another plant that, when eaten, was supposed to enable a person to see fairies.
St. John's Wort: This healing herb can be used to break fairy spells and cure illness caused by fairy darts. In some stories, however, the plant is sacred to fairies and should never be stepped on.
English Daisy: A chain made of English daisies and worn around the neck will protect children from fairy mischief.

Visiting the Faery Realm: In a world separate from our own physical realm is the astral realm. Herein lies the land of the faery. The faery realm is accessible to those that wish to visit.The best way to visit the faery realm is through meditation. Follow your normal method into a meditative state. Allow your self to follow the path to the faery world. Be patient this can take time. There are somegood guided meditations you can use to aid you. One good one is in the book The Witches Guide To Faery Folk by Edain McCoy. Remember once there to follow some rules. Never eat or drink anything offered by the faery and do not join in their revelries and dances. It would be easy to lose oneself in them. It is a good idea to astrally take an offering should a faery offer you a gift. You can than exchange gifts. Do not over thank a faery they find this annoying and offensive. They may also find you insincere. Remember that the faery hold a double standard for humans. Many of the things they do, they find offensive in humans.
Should you encounter a faery that makes you feel uncomfortable or seems angry leave it quickly. Do not attempt to engage it in conversation. You do not want these faeries to follow you home. Be respectful of the fae and their home. When you end your journey it is a good idea to remind yourself that you are back in the physical. Sometimes after a visit in the faery world you may feel a bit out of it. It is a good idea to journal your experiences for further contemplation. Visiting the faery world can be a rewarding experience but as always when working with these capricious creatures caution should always be taken.