Faeries 4

Pillywiggins (Flower Fairies, Spring Faeries, The Strangers) Tiddyfollicoles, Tiddy People (Tiny Ones) Hyter Sprites (Mossycoats) Processionaries (Walkers) Culottins (Petticoat People) Patafioles (Intoxicated Ones) Gniafs (Purses) Farisées, Vairies, Feerins (Enchanted Ones)

They can shapeshift from half an inch tall to full size and can take the form of toads, green-eyed swallows, pebbles, or dragonflies. They are beautiful with sparkling eyes and have the wings and antennas of dragonflies and butterflies from intermarrying with them. They wear muslin, flower petals, velvet jerkins, high-heeled shoes, coats out of green moss and gold thread, lizard, snakeskin and acorns, corollas and flower bells as hats. They live in the gardens of Scotland, Ireland, England, Holland, and the Ardennes region of Northern France. They dine on pollen, sap, dew, and flower nectar. They dance and gather honey. The greens eat tendrils, buds, shoots, and young leaves. They have long yellow hair, earth-brown skin and black eyes. The grays eat lichen. Farisées eat forget-me-nots. Gniafs eat clover and ride on guerliguets in pursuit of the Lawn Cat. Feerins are from Lancashire and they feed on hyacinth flowers. Their stones are called Strangers’ Tables and they dance by moonlight. Golden balls are given to those they favor. (197, 201)