
Malkolm woke me up at 4:08 am today with a loud but high pitched bark, he’s after all only four months old now π After that he ran as fast as he could and peed on the stairs all the way down to the kitchen π π π To be honest he’s really good in peeing outside almost all the time. Just before I was going to write here he once again barked, ran as fast he could down the stairs and peed all the way down again π π He had been playing so much with Alma that he forgot that he needed to go outside π π
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We don’t have Fairies in our folklore, the closest is Alves and Elves. I really don’t know a lot about Alves but there seems to have been two kinds of them, the darkness Alves who lived underground and the Light Alves who lived in the sky and shone brighter than the sun. It also seems many think they are the male equivalent to Elves but since I’ve read that there were male Elf kings I’m not sure of that. No matter what meeting Alves, who always came in groups was no good thing. Most of our beings seems to love hurting us π
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Elves however could be seen during early mornings and late evenings dancing in the fields. They were dancing in the morning mist and one can still see them when the mist comes in circles and is sort of uneven on its upper part, like small tops all around the circle, those tops are the heads of the Elves. So I can say that I see them fairly often here π Elves might be beautiful but their main purpose is to make humans sick, especially children. Sometimes so bad that they die but they mostly do this for fun and really doesn’t want to kill anyone π π
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If one would get sick after meeting the Elves one could be cured by blowing towards them with Bellows or perhaps drop some pieces of gold in a nearby creek as a sacrifice π Elves can sometimes invite You to dance with them and mean no harm with that but time flows much much slower in that circle so it’s best to not be in a hurry if one accepts. They will make You sick if You don’t dance with them and they will throw illness upon You and that will most likely kill You. Sort of damned if You do and damned if You don’t π π
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In the year 1656 a woman was put to trial when she said she had had sex with the Elf King and had seven children with him. He one day came and brought the kids with him wearing golden clothes. The verdict was that she had been that the devil had made her insane and that they all should pray for her. I’m so glad that they never have asked me to dance with them since I have two left feet and my hip replacements really aren’t made for dancing π
Have a great day!
Great story! For your sake, I hope you are never asked to dance with the Elves!
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Hi ppekka!
I’m pretty sure they would toss me out pretty quickly, I’m a lousy dancer π π π
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Pleased I didn’t bump into any of your spirits and elves critters while I was in the Northern Hemisphere (but did come across St. John’s Wort a few times). I hope you have bellows! Here in NZ our stories are about powerful creatures called Taniwhaβ¦.usually connected with waters and, interestingly, as with your Bog Lady, a log is one of quite a few forms the taniwha appears as. Bte… ‘wh’ is pronounced as ‘f’ in our Maori language. Have a lovely day π
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Hi blythedunbar!
You might have met trolls though, they look much the same as us but have a tail that they easily can hide beneath the clothes :-)They can be anything between really good neighbors to big and shrewd mountain trolls π You really don’t want to meet any mountain trolls, might be the last thing one does π π
We do have quite a lot of water beings here too, usually mostly around lakes, tarns and ricers, best to keep a lot of silver in the pockets to bribe them with π π
It’s fun that they can have similarities even though it’s almost on the opposite side of the world!
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Fascinating. Itβs easy to see why Alves have a hold on the human imagination. There are so many things we canβt explain, and the work of Alves seems as probable as an explanation as many others we come up with.
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Hi Goodport!
So true and the bog I live beside is strange, I’ve seen and heard things I can’t explain out there and it just takes seconds and then one is totally lost π
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