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Originally Posted by Dream Angel
I am just curious as to why one wants to connect to the Faeries ?
Dream Angel xx
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In most Celtic, ancient in particular, cultures people left offerings and gifts to the fair-folk because it was a mutual contract between the people the fairies. In the old Irish myth of the coming of the Milesians (humans), they had defeated the Tuatha De Danaan (gods) and entered an agreement that Ireland was to be split in half, the Sons of Mil having everything above the ground, and the De Danaan having everything below it. And it was considered customary to give the first milking to the hill-dwellers, along with other food items in order to stay in relatively good faith with them, otherwise the crops wouldn't grow and livestock would become sick. Such traditions eventually evolved into the later concepts of fairies, both seelie (mostly nice if treated good) and unseelie (not so nice) courts, and so forth.
But somehow I doubt that most people who speak of connecting with or getting to know the good folk are wanting to avert a bad harvest
So it goes to show how things can be radically changed when it comes to what stands behind a name.
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