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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. And she tried to kill Wendy! 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
The original terms for these (at least, in [[Celtic Mythology|Scottish]] lore) were the Seelie (vaguely goodish) and the Unseelie ([[Exclusively Evil]]). In Ireland, they were called ''sidhe'' ("shee") and would sour milk, kill animals, and [[Changeling Tale|swap people for changelings]]. Boys were dressed in girls' clothes until the age of 5, because otherwise the sidhe would [[Invasion of the Baby Snatchers|steal them]] for their armies. Building anything near a fairy fort was very bad. Going alone into a marsh was an invitation to get entranced by [[Cold Flames]] into their halls. Even if you were allowed [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|to leave their kingdom]], you could find that [[Year Outside, Hour Inside|centuries have passed]], and [[No Immortal Inertia|crumble into dust]]. Their [[Dances and Balls|dances]] would catch any human passerby and make him dance to exhaustion at best.
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