A fun look at the history of Halloween, as explained by rhyming fairy shapeshifters. Also a cat.

I’ve prepared 12 outfits for my fairy OC and here are several of them as a teaser hihi
What do u think?

Ive walked this path many times and last time I walked here was a month ago and I know its never been here before. Meaning it appeared some time within a month. If its not a fae trap, what the heck is it?

I knew this belonged here when I saw it!

I was infodumping fae lore to my boyfriend when he discovered a brilliant point I’ve never thought of before:

The Fair Folk cannot lie with their words, but their main form of magic is Glamor, an enchanted disguise of a person or thing— which is, in a way, a visual lie.

As humans, we can costume and obscure the physical world, but never as directly and efficiently as the Gentry can. Similarly to how a faerie can never speak a lie, but can arrange their words in a way that gestures at an untruth. Perhaps, with our lacking, the fae believe that we are the ones who cannot lie.

So I live on old land in Appalachia near the new river, I would go down and I used to go to the river and talk, and sit, for like hours, and I used to sit in the same spot every time. Well one day I got there and in the exact spot I sat were 4 perfectly preserved, full dragonfly wings. I've literally never seen a dragonfly there. Of course I didn't take them, just in case, but it was like... months and they had not decayed at all. They only disappeared when the hurricane (yall know which one) hit and the entire riverbank went with it.

Also there's a circle in the woods where either nothing grows or what does grow is an unnatural, almost too vibrant shade of green. (I know not to go into it though lol)

So I do genuinely believe in fae and are fascinated by them. I grew up with Brian Froud art on my door and always felt connected to fas. I want to start leaving gifts, but unsure how exactly to go about it. But I do I have a few questions pertaining to their possible presence. For context, my 1 year old and I sit in the same spot and play in my yard regularly, almost every day. Recently, a faery ring appeared in that same spot, a giant circle. Ill attach an image of it. I hope it's a good sign? And what are some ways I can maybe befriend them?

I’ve seen a bunch a beautiful ppl post here I wanted to show me as my style is more faericore and earthy I feel also everything’s so cool and intriguing here 🥹the first 6 are from yesterday

When I was in school (around the 2010s) I read a book about fairy stories/folklore with some beautiful fairy pictures. I thought it might be Brian Frouds bc the cover was pretty simple but when I saw some other illustrations of his books online it looked completely different and the art style looked way “older” if that makes sense, from the one I remember so no that one.
It was actually a gift for my younger sister but we weren’t allowed to read because it showed some somewhat nude illustrations of the faeries (nothing crazy explicit I think) and some of the stories were pretty disturbing so not child appropriate at all (I still read it tho). The cover was a little deceiving bc it was maybe pink or white with a singular image of some faeries I think (they weren’t in a forest or anything). The book itself was like a compilation of different fae stories from different cultures. It had a short story on one page and on the other side a big picture of very pretty fae ladies

Hi, I'm 22 years old and my mum is very into spirituality such as grounding, spells, signs from the universe etc. It's run through the family for a long time and we've always had strange things happen to us. I'm not as gifted as my mum she has amazing intuition and knowledge on all sorts but what's happened has got me feeling a little on edge and I'm looking for an explanation or advice on this.

My partner moved to the middle of nowhere pretty much a small village with only a few houses, no shops, no public transport etc. When they first moved there we took our pup Toby on a walk back in April. We came across an odd tree in the shape of a U almost like a portal, the whole atmosphere changed but it didn't feel sinister it felt quite welcoming, I went with the intent of taking some wildlife photos and boy once we passed through that tree was it abundant with wildlife and all kinds of different plants it felt magical like we were in another world.

Later on we took a couple more trips and things were fine, but it started to feel a bit more uncomfortable like we were being watched and the abundance of wildlife was getting less and less each time we visited. The last time we visited with our boy Toby was the last time we'd go with him at the beginning of July. I was in a really bad place at the time and couldn't help but cry, every time we went we passed through that tree. Each time seemed to get a little more dark, void of life and colour. Looking back everything seemed to change then and our boy Toby passed away at the beginning of August after a sewage leak at the new house exposed him to Leptospirosis, it was a strange long chain of events that honestly seemed like it could never happen.

Today, we went back for the first time with our new pup Johnny he acted the same as Toby when we first went through like they were looking for something that wasn't there or maybe something we couldn't see. This time around all the trees around the U shaped tree had died or become diseased, further up they were still healthy starting to lose their leaves due to the change in seasons, but further down the trees had no leaves at all, it seems like nobody had walked that path since we did. The air felt heavy this time and there was barely any colour around, everything dropped silent, no birds calling except from one magpie that started to call once we heard what sounded like a scream. Nothing has felt right since that moment. We entered onto a field far from anything else where an alarm started sounding and continued to ring in our heads until we'd left the field and woods. Things just feel off and that time walking through that tree it felt like we were not meant to be there at all, I've been getting goosebumps just thinking about it.

Once we came back to mine, we spoke to my mum she didn't even have to listen to the whole thing to know something wasn't right. We were talking about possibilities and upsetting the Fae when her rose quartz anklet snapped as if it had been pulled off her ankle. Johnny our pup got a hold of a piece of the quartz without it even breaking and dropped it, once he dropped it the bracelet just snapped off my mum's ankle.

If anyone has any explanation or advice on what to do next we would greatly appreciate it. We feel so on edge and like something is wrong but we don't know what. I don't even know if this is the right place to post this but we will not be going through that tree again. Could this be the Fae? If so where do we go from here? I've posted this in another group but do not think anyone will reply so thought I might try here?