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© 2008, Elizabeth Flynn & Jacquie Rogers Faeries Along the Silk Road
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Introduction: Where do faeries come from?
Pack Your Trunk: It’s a Truncated Trip
Hoo-ray for Hollywood: Modern faeries
Jumping Across the Pond: Norse, Gaelic, & Celtic tradition
Turn right: Travelling the Silk Road
Monkey Man: Lots of ‘Em!
Splitting Roads: Off to Philippines, Polynesia, and Japan
Back to America: Bearing Straight for Bering Strait
Eilis Flynn www.eilisflynn.com
Introducing Sonika
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Faery Special Romances
Building new worlds, one faery at a time
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Ankou
Ankou is a skeleton-
ghost who travels at
night to collect the souls
of the recently departed.
Bean Sidhe
“Woman of the Hills”
who shrieks a warning
when a family member
is about to die.
Dana o’Shee
Beautiful, ever young—
the nobles of the faery
court, loving dance,
music, and jewels.
Doppelgänger
The image in the win-
dow or mirror, the em-
bodiment of the
viewer’s soul.
Dragon
Fire-breathing lizard
with wings and scales.
Often a hoarder of re-
cious stones
Dryad
Tree-dwelling spirits of
the Druids who gave
them the passage to the
astral plane.
Elf
German and Norse:
originally the spirits of
the dead who brought
fertility.
Giant
Often the loser in crea-
tion myths. Usually
portrayed as evil, but
not always.
From Hollywood, we skip to Europe
and meet the Faeries from the British
Isles, Northern and Central Europe.
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Hobgoblin
Malevolent elf who
enforces moral code
upon humans, although
is amoral himself.
Goblin
Grotesque variety of
evil but playful gnomes.
Nomadic, but can be
found in rocks & trees.
Lady of the Lake
Lives in Dosmary Pool,
Cornwall. She gave Ex-
calibur to Arthur, and
he returned it to her.
Leanansidhe
Vampire faery.
An inspiration to poets,
but then sucks their
blood dry.
The Lorelei
(Also called Mary
Player or Siren)
Beautiful faery sings
sailors to their deaths.
Phooka
Run in packs & will
harm children & cattle.
Will destroy crops after
Samhain.
Merpeople
Half human, half fish.
Friendly & have saved
drowning sailors. Anger
if home is polluted
Leprechaun
Drunken shoemakers
who guard pots of gold,
cauldrons from ancient
Crone lore.
Mistletoe placed in the
cradle protects a child
from being stolen by
fairies and replaced with
changelings.
Harebell makes the
invisible become
visible. Eating the
flowers will allow you
to see faeries.
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Succubus
Female faery who sexu-
ally attacks men. A
bluebell under the bed
might ward them off.
Pixies
Small faeries, closest to
Tinkerbell. They can be
somewhat capricious.
Pixie dust in footsteps.
Troll
Big, ugly, & mean.
Turn to stone if exposed
to sunlight, so stay in
caves until night.
The Vila
Mistress of the Forest.
So beautiful, when a
human man sees her he
yearns for her forever.
Wichtln (Wight)
Small, mischievous, &
mean, it’s said they
never sleep. They adopt
a human home to guard.
Will-o'-the-Wisp
Faery lights seen near
brush, marshes, or hills.
Some say they are car-
ried by faery revelers.
Incubus
Male faery who sexu-
ally attacks women. A
peony under the bed is
some protection.
The Seelie and Unseelie Courts
Edain McCoy says this faery form might have
been borrowed from old Indian legends about
god-like air spirits of both good and evil who
engaged in great battles of the heavens.
Common belief is
that faeries cannot
start fires; therefore,
they must steal or
borrow it from
humans.
Faeries, especially
the Sidhe, cannot
tolerate the presence
of metals. But
dwarfs are expert
metalworkers.
And now Eilis will
take you south and
east, over the Silk
Road.
I’ll meet you in
Alaska!
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The djinn, a familiar creature for a lot of us, is a
common figure in Middle Eastern folklore.
Peri of Persia, a Persian fairy, are
said to be descended from fallen
angels who have been denied
paradise until they have done
penance.
Siren
Beautiful women’s
heads with bird bodies
who lured sailors to
their deaths.
Nymph
Minor Greek deities, daughters of Zeus
or other gods. Very sexual, the source of
the modern term nymphomaniac.
Satyr
Half– goat and half-human. They
serve Dionysus, chase nymphs
mostly, and are usually portrayed
with a huge penis.
Apis
Egyptian bull
god.
Manifestation
of the pharaoh
with strength
of heart &
virility.
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Hanuman, the Hindu
monkey god, was elevated
to god status when he
sided with Rama in a war.
Hanuman appears in
another form later on
along the Silk Road.
Ganesha, the Hindu ele-
phant god, is missing a
tusk as you can see here,
because he uses it as a pen.
Saraswati is the Hindu goddess of
knowledge, music and the arts. She
with goddesses Lakshmi and Parvati
or Durga, forms the Tridevi ("three
goddesses"), who are consorts of the
male trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and
Shiva respectively.
Left: The yaksha, a woodland and mountain fairy,
is often found in Hindu and Buddhist mythology.
Sometimes a pleasant creature and sometimes not,
it appears in folklore both aiding humans and
attempting to eat them. This is the palden lhamo,
the protectress of the Dalai Lama.
Yakasha at Kushavarta
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Mogwai may be familiar to you. It
means monster in a Chinese dialect,
so that was a joke on someone's part
in the movie Gremlins.
Tengu is usually known as a
crow-goblin, but what you
see here is a variation -- the
long nose you see here is also
used as a depiction of the
white man.
Hachiman is the Japanese
equivalent of Hanuman, the
Hindu monkey god.
For whatever reason, the
monkey god was translated
to a human in Japanese lore.
But there are a lot of mon-
keys in the Japanese islands.
Below: a familiar face for those who watch anime: Inuyasha, a dog-demon.
Left: Fujin
a wind-god, is
one of the kami-
kaze in Japa-
nese lore.
You may recognize these guys;
See no evil, speak no evil, hear no
evil. These monkeys were carved
into a famous shrine outside Tokyo
called Nikko. In the continuation
of the Silk Road, these monkeys
were originally from India, and
made their way to Japan.
The kappa is a water demon -- not
a friendly creature at all. It lures
humans into rivers and lakes and
drowns.
Right: The phoenix and
the dragon are important
to Chinese mythology.
The dragon dance is per-
formed every year for the
Chinese New Year.
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Left: Mandurugo in Filipino/
Malay folklore is unpleasant
spirit, usually considered a
vampire or an incubus-like
creature.
Here's a Malay spirit
depiction with a
Muslim and Hindu influence.
Menehunas live in the tropical
forests and can be very helpful to
lost humans if in the right mood.
Like Leprechauns, they guard a
pot of treasure. They are very old,
maybe even as old as creation.
Indonesian Sprit-Chaser
Pele
Hawaiian goddess of fire,
lightning, dance, volca-
noes, and violence. She
lives in Halema’uma’u, the
crater of Mauna Loa.
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Bokwus
Dangerous forest spirit
who lures humans into
rivers or lakes and are
never seen again.
Nagumwasuck
Guardian spirits of the
Passamaquoddy . Small
& ugly but helpful and
create good luck.
Thunderbird
A powerful spirit who
flashed lighning from
his beak and thunder
from his wings.
Orca
Sea Wolf—Guardian of
Cosmic Memory and
Keeper of the Ocean.
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Eilis Flynn Eilis Flynn has spent a large
chunk of her life working on
Wall Street, so why should
she write fiction that's based in
reality? She spends her days
aware that there is a reality
beyond what we can see and
tells stories about it for
Cerridwen Press.
Jacquie Rogers Jacquie Rogers is a former
software designer, campaign
manager, and cow milker, but
always an avid reader. Her de-
but, Faery Special Romances,
is a collection of 10 stories all
featuring faeries. Coming up:
Down Home Ever Lovin’
Mule Blues.
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