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 Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 12:23 pm
I have this book series, called The Sevenwaters Trilogy by Juliet Marillier, and although it takes place in Ireland just as Christianity was beginning to grow as the popular religion, the story discusses the Tuatha'De Dannan* as using humans for their own purposes, whether for ill or good, it depended on the situation. I don't know if this is relevant to our discussion of faeries or not, but alot of what you guys have said about faeries leading humans astray and holding them for as long as they wish, that sounds alot like what the Tuatha'De Dannan did-and probably still do.
I'm not an expert on this stuff, and what I'm saying comes mostly from The Sevenwaters Trilogy. I let a co-worker borrow the book that has all the descriptions in it, but if anyone wants to see where I'm getting my info, its The Sevenwaters Trilogy by Juliet Marillier. The first book in the trilogy is called Daughter of the Forest.....
*Tuatha'De Dannan means the Fair Folk, one of the ancient races to inhabit Ireland before the human race settled there. Just in case somebody didn't know....and I do realize that I most likely misspelled it, but I don't have the exact spelling infront of me at the moment.
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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:13 pm
It would appear to me that each of you has a strong belief in either direction of a faerie's will; be it good or bad. But I would like to say that creatures tend to act differently towards each person. This holds true for all creatures living and deceased. From kittens to faeries to spirits and even demons. So how a faerie reacts towards one person would, most likely, be entirely different from another. Meaning that if a faerie's will is good, it could see that a child was being mistreated and take it away from its parents leaving behind a changling or what-not in its place while they raise the child instead as a way of saying that if you're going to treat a child as this creature, you should be raising this creature in the first place.
That's not to say that a faerie's will is good. As we are not faeries, all we can really go on is observation. And so if a faerie is ill willed, then they could simply be stealing the child out of spite for humans as to torment them for eternity.
And then, they could just simply not exist all together as the thirt side to this circle goes.
So, instead of getting all heated in an arguement about this, let's just respect that each of us sees things in a different way as no two aspects can truly be the same. This means perhaps not speaking matter-of-factly.
-Rhuki
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