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*GOOD FAERIES
BAD FAERIES*
by Brian Froud
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Froud's illustrations have delighted readers since his first book,
Faeries, introduced us to the little people of folklore.
Good Faeries/Bad Faeries is a doorway to the faery realm of the 20th century, where you'll meet delightful characters like Quempel, who dances to celebrate when something is done well; or the Buttered Toast Faery, who decides which side of a dropped piece of toast will hit the floor--faeries who will call you back so often that Good Faeries/Bad Faeries won't have a chance to gather
dust.
Faeries are
seen not by the eyes but through the heart
*GOOD
FAERIES BAD FAERIES*
by Brian Froud
Humans have long maintained close daily connections with the faeries. In centuries past, we've acknowledged them by many traditional names: boggarts, bogles, bocans, bugganes, brownies, blue-caps, banshees, miffies, nippers, nickers, knockers, noggles, lobs, hobs, scrags, ouphs, spunks, spurns, hodge-pochers, moon dancers, puckles, thrumpins, mawkins, gally-trots, Melsh Dicks, and myriad others. Just as they have many different names, they appear to us in many different guises. They are shape shifters, highly mutable, for no faery or nature spirit has a fixed body. In their essence, faeries are abstract structures of flowing energy, formed of an astral matter that is so sensitive as to be influenced by emotion and thought. In their most primal form, we perceive them simply as pulsing forces of radiant light, with a glowing
centre located in the region of the head or heart. (In the more highly evolved faeries, the head and the eyes are more strongly defined.) Responding both to mythic patterns and to human thoughts, these abstract forces delight in coalescing into wings and flowing drapery, taking on shapes that reflect the human, animal, plant, and mineral worlds.
Such images grow from my own [Brian Froud's]
inner journeys and daily contact with the faeries. By experience I
[Brian Froud]
have found them to be irrational, poetic, absurd, paradoxical, and very, very wise. They bestow the gifts of inspiration, self-healing, and self-transformation...but they also create the mischief in our lives, wild disruptions, times of havoc, mad abandon, and dramatic change..../ In this book I
[Brian Froud] have attempted to divide faeries into good and
bad -- a convenient conceit for us humans, but laughable to the faery folk. Faeries insist on being themselves, shape-shifting endlessly. Good and bad coexist in some degree in all of Faery's creatures.
In this richly imagined two-in-one book, Brian Froud reveals the secrets he has learned from the
faeries - Brilliantly documenting both the dark and light, GOOD FAERIES/BAD FAERIES presents a world of enchantment and magic that deeply compels the imagination.
GOOD FAERIES
As guardians, guides, godmothers, and muses, the good faeries of the twilight realm are agents of self-growth and transformation, embodiments of the healing energies that flow through nature and through ourselves. Both luminous and illuminating, they reveal hidden aspects of our souls.
QUEMPEL
This faery dances to celebrate bright, special moments when something is well done and done well. Then she sits, plump with satisfaction and glowing with achievement.
EXPRESSION FAERY
This faery helps in moods of expression such as dance and body posture, and with skills such as cooking, writing, acting, drawing, and making love.
THE FAERY WHO WAS KISSED BY THE PIXIES
Perched upon her enchanted faery stool, this faery shines with her own inner light while surrounded by saucy pixies and other tricksy creatures. She laughs with joy that a pixie kiss brings. The pixies say there cannot be too much kissing! A faery kiss is a blessing indeed.
BOON
The faery companion called Boon protects children from suffering bad dreams. In Norwegian folklore, this guardian spirit, called the fylgja, is a creature who comes in dreams to give advice or warning, often in animal form. These protective spirits stay with a man or woman from birth to the end of their lives, and then pass on within the family to the next generation of children.
THE MASK OF TRUTH, TRUE DREAMING
It is midnight, and the faeries are gathering. The Faery of Aspiration welcomes us with upraised hands into our spiritual potential. Dour gnomes watch from the shadows, called from the deep regions of the earth. Silvanus, guardian of the woodland and its creatures (a faery of physical fecundity and fruitful thought), holds the golden-winged emblem of spiritual journey. This mask, decorated with the wings of Hypnos, facilitates the understanding of dreams, deep thought, and meditation. It is a mask of truth, for to wear it is to look inward--toward a true reflection of yourself. Yet some of us can bear to hold the mask for only a one brief glimpse.
The faery Kundrun holds one of the many sacred swords of Faeryland. This one, forged long ago by
mysterious dwarves, is laid across the cliff of the Otherworld as a bridge to Faeryland.
The two-edged sword symbolizes the union of the human world with the world of Faery, as well as the union of the outer world of nature with the inner world of the psyche. It is the sword of clear-cut understanding and sharp perception. But once we cross into Faery it becomes the sword of courage and noble service.
GWENHWYFAR
She is the White Shadow, dancing by moonlight to the faery piper's tune, leaving tiny white star flowers to glow where her feet have trod. She dreams that she dances among constellations far beyond our knowing.
Faeries love to dance. Their music is the most haunting music ever heard by human ears, sad and sweet, deeply sensual, tranquil one moment, demented the next. The White Ladies are luminous faery creatures who dance by the light of the moon, beautiful as the music itself, trailing patterns of
colour and mist in their wake. Faeries often dance in circles, leaving rings of flattened grass to mark the sites of their midnight revels-- or circles of toadstools springing up where faery feet have trod.
Faeries dwell in the twilight, between day and night, between spirit and matter, between the conscious and the unconscious... where all things are possible, where our past and future meet, where we meet ourselves coming back. When we dance with the faeries, we dance with the reflections of our true selves and the true inner self of the world.
Faeries are irrational,
poetic, absurd, and very, very wise
BAD FAERIES
Did you ever wonder why your socks never match or buttered toast always falls facedown? Did you ever wonder what a Pang of Regret looks like? Or Mild Panic? Here you'll see the faces and darker
problems -- the bad faeries who pinch us, nip us, trip us up, and lead us astray. Yet even bad faeries have their gifts to bestow when we understand their contrary natures. By recognizing and naming them, you'll find they can teach you how to spin the straw of your life into gold.
THE FAERY OF DARK
DESPAIR
She throws her spell of introspective darkness, and you sink deeper
into the shadows of despondency. Her enchantment may last for just a few
hours...or for many years. Yet the hue of her wings reminds us that
there is always hope in the midst of hopelessness.
A
SLIPPERY FAERY
All faeries are elusive (and illusive) creatures. This faery is
particularly slippery, making objects slip out of your fingers and smash
against the floor. She haunts kitchens, and glassware shops, and posh
ceramics galleries. She also contrives slips of the tongue: when you are
under her influence, the wrong word just slips right out of your mouth.
Her specialty is the Freudian slip, which reveals too much about
yourself.
LILU
Crouching on the edge of reason, just beyond rationality, this faery is the provocateur of restless nights and erotic dreams. She is the one who ensnares us with compulsions, fixations, feverish imaginings.
THE FOOT FUNGUS FAERY
The wild nocturnal dancing of faeries produces the well-known phenomenon of faery rings: toadstools growing in the circle where their tripping feet have touched the ground.
In Ireland, he is known as the Glanconer, or Love Talker. His amorous cousins around the world include England's deadly Reynardine, the fox daemons of China and Japan, the lusty elfin knight of Scottish balladry.
The Glanconer's eyes are black as sloes and his words are sweeter than honey. He walks the woods by twilight, prowling for women to charm and kiss. Beware. Dealing with the Love Talker involves a risk-- an elemental risk. It might be an exhilarating experience treasured for the rest of your life--or you might pine away when the faery's gone and no other man's touch can equal his. The Glanconer, like sweet-talking human lover boys, takes you for a walk on the wild side of Faery. It could be the making of you...or lead to pain and
despair.
LEANAN SIDHE
This beguiling creature is the Irish faery mistress, or faery muse, who inspires artists, poets, and musicians. Her enchantments stimulate creativity until it burns with a bright, fierce flame. The sheer intensity of this vision will eventually leave the artist hollow eyed and worn, his gift in ashes. Artists visited by the Leanan Sidhe are said to be touched by genius but often die young.
In other moods she is the Dark Seductress known as Lhiannan Shee on the Isle of Man. She seduces her victim, draws out his spirit, and leaves him as a ruined husk in body and soul. She is the skogsfru of Scandinavia, a forest faery with a fatal touch; and the Bonga Maiden of India, a capricious nature spirit who entices and even marries human men.
She is the beautiful Deer Maiden of the Lakota and other Native American tribes, who lures men into the woods to their doom-- yet also inspires artists (and occasionally drives them mad). But she is perhaps best known as the faery so evocatively portrayed in Keats's poem
"La Belle Dame sans Merci": the seductive creature who leaves the knight haggard, alone, and "palely loitering."
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the Isle of Man. She seduces her victim, draws out his spirit, and leaves him as a ruined husk in body and soul. She is the skogsfru of Scandinavia, a forest faery with a fatal touch; and the Bonga Maiden of India, a capricious nature spirit who entices and even marries human men. 
