Sprites in early England

Usage examples of faeries.

I have, however, been at no pains to separate my own beliefs from those of the peasantry, but have rather let my men and women, dhouls and faeries, go their way unoffended or defended by any argument of mine.

There was at once great excitement in the neighbourhood, because it was rumoured that the faeries had taken her.

She said the faeries had taken her away a great distance, riding on a faery horse.

The faeries in whom he believes have given him many subjects, notably Thomas of Ercildoune sitting motionless in the twilight while a young and beautiful creature leans softly out of the shadow and whispers in his ear.

If the moth-hunter would throw down his net, and go hunting for ghost tales or tales of the faeries and such-like children of Lillith, he would have need for far less patience.

I then called aloud the names of the great faeries, and in a moment or two she said that she could hear music far inside the rocks, and then a sound of confused talking, and of people stamping their feet as if to applaud some unseen performer.

The people and faeries in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.

When her son, who was then a baby, had grown up he received word in some way, not handed down, that his mother was glamoured by faeries, and imprisoned for the time in a house in Glasgow and longing to see him.

They were faeries, and had stolen her as a wife for the chief of their band.

If we could love and hate with as good heart as the faeries do, we might grow to be long-lived like them.

But it is not merely faeries who know untiring days, for there have been men and women who, falling under their enchantment, have attained, perhaps by the right of their God-given spirits, an even more than faery abundance of life and feeling.

The mother buried the log, and the child grew up, became a beauty, and married the prince of the faeries, who came to her at nightfall.

The faeries and the more innocent of the spirits dwelt within it, and lamented over our fallen world in the lamentation of the wind-tossed reeds, in the song of the birds, in the moan of the waves, and in the sweet cry of the fiddle.

Nor would they treat the faeries as one is treated in an old Highland poem.

Among the sketches and masks were some drawings of elves and faeries, and even one of a troll.