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''[[Light Is Not Good|Elves are ]]'''[[Eldritch Abomination|bad]]'''.''|[[Terry Pratchett]], ''[[Discworld/Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]''}}
Modern society has lived with [[Disneyfication|the Disneyfied vision]] of Fairies for so long -- the Fairy Godmothers of "[[Cinderella (novel)|Cinderella]]" and "[[Sleeping Beauty]]", Tinkerbell in ''[[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Peter Pan]]''<ref>Tink was actually quite capable of mischief in the original movie, but she has since been princess-ified.</ref> -- that it seems hard to imagine that some would consider Fairies evil.
And yet, some of them were. The Fairies of old weren't [[Fairy Companion|cute little bewinged Pixies who fluttered happily around humans]]. Elves didn't [[Christmas Elves|make children toys]] or [[Hidden Elf Village|live deep in forests with no interaction with mortals]]. At best, they would interact with humans with either no thought to the consequences of their actions ([[Little People]] who put [[Rip Van Winkle]] to sleep) or delight in the mess they're making of mortal lives (Oberon, Puck, and the rest in ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''). At worst, they're like [[The Joker]] with magic; otherworldly horrors who kidnap humans for torture and rape - or sometimes even ''worse'' things ("[[Tam Lin]]"). [[The Fair Folk]] almost always live in the land of [[Faerie]].
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