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“When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. ... James Barrie’s idea of the origin of fairies is just one of many circulating throughout the world. There are also believed to be many different types of fairies, such as water fairies, house spirits, and field guardians (Simpson 49). ... All types of fairies that were believed to come from many different places were blamed for all kinds of happenings in medieval times.
There are believed to be many different types of fairies throughout the world. The most widely known types of fairies are water fairies, house spirits, and fairies that inhabited wild places such as the woods or the sky. There are three main types of water fairies, grotesque ogres and ogresses, seductive but dangerous maidens, and shape shifters. ... The second type of water fairies are seductive maidens. ... The third type of water fairies are the shape shifters, which have the ability to switch between human form and animal form, mostly the form of a horse. ... Fairies, whether they’re good or evil, have been believed to dwell in places all over the world.
There are many different beliefs to fairies’ origins and names.
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