Fairy Worlds

by Craig
(Nevada)

Are there many fairy worlds or places, like different countries or kingdoms in Faerie? Or is it all just one big realm? There are so many different stories about fae folk, how can there be so many various tales unless there were different places with different beings or creatures who lived there?

Ophelia Fey says - You have hit the nail on the head, Craig, as it is sometimes said. The realm of Faerie, as I have mentioned on other pages, is indeed vast. More complex than even your mortal world, for we have many dimensions and frequencies. And whereas you are on the "earthly" plane, the spirits of nature can live in and tend to all elements, not just earth - but also fire, water, air. Or combinations. And so you see the largeness of it.

Also, many of these dimensions interconnect with certain parts of your earth, nearer to certain populations and cultures. So over Time fae folk have observed these ways and mimicked some of them. And at the same time, perhaps your ancestors, who were more closely bonded with the natural world and therefore the spirits of it, also observed some things. And even mimicked us to some extent and taken on some of our ways. But who knows really what, since they did not exactly have all the rights words to describe just what they were seeing. They made stories to try to get the ideas across.

In the realm of Faerie, you could say that there are worlds within worlds. I, myself, could not possibly know of them all. Nor do many of us. And so when I hear some of your tales, I cannot say that they were all wrong, for some of it was based on Something. But storytelling has certainly gotten our fairy worlds very muddled up.

Many of my readers have written in about things they have seen, and about stories they want to write. I have come to realize that each person could very well be "tuning in" to a specific and different part of Faerie, based on their ability to do so, and where they may live. I do not comment on much of this, because I cannot. Not all of it is familiar to me. Yet I cannot say that it is "wrong." But I can only comment on that which I am familiar.

Ophelia Fey