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nature's HOA enforcers with wings, and they will ruin your crops over a rude word.
means supernatural beings from folklore who live at the edge of human perception and operate on rules humans keep breaking by accident.
from from old french faerie, meaning enchantment, itself from fae or fata, the fates — originally not cute creatures but the state of being under magical influence.
iron aversioncold iron supposedly burns or repels them completely
time distortiona night in fairyland can be decades back home
changelingsfolklore blamed them for swapping human babies
not always smalloriginally human-sized, shrank in victorian retellings
for instance
tuatha de danann — irish mythic race later folded into fairy lore
tinker bell — 1904 peter pan character who rebranded fairies as tiny and jealous
cottingley fairies — 1917 photographs fooled arthur conan doyle himself
the seelie court — scottish folklore split fairies into benevolent and hostile factions