pixies are all too rare nowadays.

These merry little folks (though credited with many a frolicsome gambol) are seemingly very shy of disporting themselves at the present day.

They are much more retiring than was the case years agone.

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with their free, joyous temperament and love of beauty, abhor the niggardly nature that spends grudgingly and never gives freely.

Indeed, they punish such people, and make them suffer for the sins of the hard heart and niggard hand.


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The heartless sometimes extract the (= goodness, essence or life force) from our human food.

Outwardly the food looks the same, but there is no longer any nourishment within it.
Eat it at your peril.

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Faeries haunt the places where the wild thyme grows.

It was one of the plants laid in the manger for the Christ-Child.

Do not bring it into the house, but prepare infusions outside.


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Another old drawing... Hayfever faeries appear every summer when the horse chestnut trees and clover blossoms. Although they may look cute, they make mine and doggo's life a misery 🤧🌿🌸🌿

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A very Happy Birthday to the master illustrator himself, Brian Froud! Seriously sad that this brilliant artist isn't trending. Let's work on changing that.

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Commission for BrianFroudFan

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How to Lay a Troublesome Boggart

Beguile it into consenting to keep away 'while hollies are green'.

The average dull-witted boggart easily falls into this trap and is never able to bother you again.

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Spriggans are small ugly malicious found in the wilder parts of

They are the of


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Concept art by Brian Froud for The Dark Crystal (1982) Dir Jim Henson..

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Quan vaig descobrir el de les fades de Alan Lee i en Brian Froud al 1999.
When I discovered the fairy by Alan Lee and Brian Froud in 1999.

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“I come from the Land of the Living, where there is neither death, nor sin, nor transgression.
We partake of feasts perpetual.
In a large hill we dwell, and hence we are called Aes Sidhe (People of the Hill)”

- Echtra Condla,

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In the dim kingdom there is a great abundance of all excellent things. There is more love there than upon the earth. There is more dancing there than upon the earth.
There is more treasure there than upon the earth.


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Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book by Terry Jones and Brian Froud is a collection of "pressed fairies" intended to satarise the famous Cottingley Fairies. The book contains Jone's whimsical humour and Froud's beautiful illustrations..

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On in former days, the small people, or would meet at the bottom of the deepest mines, and celebrate

Note to the producers of You missed a trick there. :)


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