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FAIRIES ARE EVERYWHEREFairies argon magical creatures, usually very a lot akin humilitary personnelbeings. But they can do m both things that humans cannot do. Mostfairies can make themselves invisible. Many can travel in an minute of arcanywhere they want to go, even very great distances. Some can changetheir shapes they might look bid cats, or birds, or dogs, or any otheranimal. Some of them live for many hundreds of years others (Likewith Tinker Bell From Peter Pan) live forever. Many fairies like to playtricks on human beings others like to help them. Fairies come in allsizes and shapes as well. They might be ugly, humpbacked littlecreatures, like the trolls or gnomes that the people tell about inDenmark, Sweden, and Germany. Both trolls and gnomes are supposedto guard treasures. Trolls live in dark caves, and gnomes make theirhomes underground. Some fairies are handsome, for example, the pixiesof Wales, or the goldenhaired white elves of the Scandinavian countries.Some fair ies are giants, others are less than two feet tall. Some havespecial shapes. Example are mermaids and mermen, human above thewaist but with the lower part of their bodies like fish. They live in anunderwater world of splendor. Beautiful mermaids often lure sailors totheir destruction, or cause shipwrecks. The Scandinavians believed in ariver spirit that looked like a man above the water and like a horsebelow.Most fairies live in fairyland, where some strange things areALWAYS happening. They live together rule by a king and queen,whose names are Oberon and Titania. Some people think that the rulerof Fairyland is Queen Mab.Not all fairies live in fairyland, however. Some live alone as theguardians of certain places. The Lorelei of Germany is a beautifulwoman with long golden hair. She stays on a special rock n roll on the rightbank of the Rhine River. Many kinds of fairies like to play tricks on human beings.Sometimes they tie knots in the manes of horses at night, and ride them pro cess the horses are tired out. A horseshoe nailed to the stable door willkeep these fairies away. If the maid is lazy and does not clean the housecarefully, the fairies will mouse her while she sleeps. The pixies of Walesare especially troublesome to human beings. Some pixies lead travelersthe wrong way. Others call to a lost person in the voice of his friend.When he follows the voices, he finds nobody there. The pixies like to hidthings in houses, and to blow out candles so that the people of the