In the 1760’s, the Scottish poet James Macpherson (1736-1796) claimed dubiously to have discovered and translated tales written by Finn’s son, Oisin, whom he called Ossian. Two of his popular books are Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books (1762) and Temore (1763), an epic that he claimed was translated from the Gaelic of Ossian. Both Finn and his son frequently appear in Irish myth and literature, most notably in the poetry of William Butler Yeats.

According to Fort’s biographer, Damon Knight, Fort’s friend Aaron Sussman pointed out a page of the proofs that was one line short. “Without hesitation, Fort picked up a pencil and wrote: ‘One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.’” He finished “Wild Talents” on 20 February 1932, while he became seriously ill. It dealt with occult or psychic abilities and was published posthumously, later that year, by his friend Claude Kendall.

Charles Fort was weird, wild, and wonderful. We think he would be pleased to see his listing here.

There is also an older and mainly Scottish sense of fey meaning “with second sight, especially of deaths and disasters,” and sometimes this sense occurs in literary contexts today: The old vagrant claimed to be fey, and he regularly predicted the end of the world. Fay means “elfin,” “elflike,” as in “The little children were dressed like elves and fairies and danced about in a mode their teacher apparently considered fay.” - From : Kenneth G. Wilson (1923-). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.

2. Fairies were frequently supposed to reside in a kingdom of their own-which might be underground, e.g., gnomes; in the sea, e.g., mermaids; in an enchanted part of the forest; or in some far land. Sometimes they were ruled by a king or queen, as were the trolls in Ibsen’s Peer Gynt and the fairies in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Although fairies were usually represented as mischievous, capricious, and even demonic, they could also be loving and bountiful, as the fairy godmother in Cinderella. Sometimes fairies entered into love affairs with mortals, but usually such liaisons involved some restriction or compact and frequently ended in calamity, as did those of Melusine and Undine. Various peoples have emphasized particular kinds of fairies in their folklore, such as the Arabic jinni, Scandinavian troll, Germanic elf, and English pixie. Among the great adapters of fairy lore into popular fairy tales were Charles Perrault, the brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen. Other notable contributors were Andrew Lang and James Stephens.

See Katharine M. Briggs, “The Fairies in English Tradition and Literature” (1967); J. D. Zipes, “Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales” (1979), “Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale” (1994), and “When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition” (1999); M. M. Tatar, “Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood” (1992); M. Warner, “From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers” (1995). - From : The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001.

3. Fairy is the standard word for the magical mythical being, both as noun and adjective. Also as noun it is the usually taboo and always disparaging slang term for a male homosexual; context must make clear which sense you intend. Faerie and faery are variant spellings of a poetic noun that means both “fairyland� and “a fairy,� again, the mythical creature; both can also be used as adjectives. Fay is also a literary word, meaning “fairy� or “elf� or, as an adjective, “fairylike� or “elfin.� See also FEY. - From : Kenneth G. Wilson (1923-). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.

Ahhh… one too many Pan-Galactic Gargleblasters, eh? That explains it.

Well, ok… we’ll give just one more try to explain it to you.

Fairy Land :

ummm… was that Tooth Fairy Land or just regular old Fairy Land?

Right.

Tooth Fairy Land : An ancient mythological world from which and to which the Tooth Fairies come and go in their nightly visits to the late great planet Earth, boldly sneaking into young children’s bedrooms and removing the rotten, fallen out teeth from beneath their pillows, where they were left in hopes of receiving some favor or prize. Typically, Tooth Fairies left a coin, or a dollar or two. The Tooth Fairies never leave candy.

Fairy Land : A mythical, aetherical world where the Fey/Fay/Fae have their homes. Descriptions of Fairy Land differ according to variations in cultural mythos.

A quick search on the Internet will reveal a plethora of websites devoted to Fairies and Fairy Land, though these beings are often depicted as tiny, dragon-winged creatures of a happy disposition, this is not necessarily the whole truth. In-depth research into the Fae and Fairy Land will reveal their seedier side, that of the trickster, and even some that are very mean-spirited.