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I’m Neil and welcome back to real world magic where we make your life more magical.
In today’s show, I’m going to tell you where to find fairies in your own home.
Most people know that fairies are nature spirits.
They’re the wee folk, the other men, the little folk, the magical kind, the fae.
Whatever you want to call them, they have many names but they all refer to those we
loosely call fairies.
Fairies come in all different shapes and sizes and I mean that literally, from the typical
Cottingly* fairies we all know and love - like these - to much to the more sinister fairies of Brian
Froud, you’ll see both good and bad fairies if you just know where to look.
So obviously we have the standard places of your garden because fairies are nature spirits
and they just love nature so if your garden is overgrown (especially) or - as witches like to call
it - “returned to nature”, you could have a chance of seeing a garden spirit, yourself, but even
if you live in a one bedroom apartment in a high rise block, you could still be sharing
your home with the magical little folk.
The most common among the wee small men is the leprechaun who is said to have a long
ginger beard - even the females... NICE!
Similar to the dwarves of Tolkien in appearance, the leprechaun likes money and could easily
be hiding inside your sofa, searching for those coins that fall down the sides of the
cushions.
Of course your kitchen is the ideal place for the Brigburn.
The Brigburn is a brown and blue fairy about the size of a pepper pot (so pretty small) and it has the curious
habit of licking up grease.
It’s a good fairy to have in your house because it helps to prevent fires - which
is ironic considering the word “burn” in the name of the brigburn, but it can lead
to a somewhat unpleasant smell.
It seems fairly obvious to me that many takeaway restaurants have a rather large family of
Brigburns living there, which is probably why certain large fast food chains smell so significantly of grease.
If you want to find the Brigburn yourself, you can simply leave out a small amount of
oil in an egg cup and if the volume of oil goes down overnight you know you have a Brigburn
in your kitchen! Cool!
Next we have the scribble bug.
Of course it’s not really a bug but it can be mistaken for one.
It looks a little bit like a shiny green beetle so if you see one in your house don’t assume
it’s a pest and certainly don’t kill it.
It’s a good omen that can bring fortune to those who care for it with an offering
of sugar.
The scribble bug is so named because of its likeness for artworks and especially innocent
artworks made by younger children.
They like houses where children are either allowed to draw on the walls or they just
draw on the walls anyway.
The scribble bug is well known as a friend of children and they are often thought to
be friendly with the tooth fairy.
Some fairy researchers have in fact, actually suggested that the scribble bug itself might be the ones from
whom the tooth fairy stories originate because of their love for children and giving money
to those who deserve it.
If you want to find a scribble bug yourself, you need to unfocus your vision a little bit - similar to a magic eye painting - and cast around the
house for flashes of green light out of the corner of your eye.
If you ever look directly at a scribble bug, you will only ever see a beetle but if you look
at it either with the side of your eye or through a hag stone, you’ll see a fat, round
creature with four legs similar to a scaly green dog about the size of a voal. So again, fairly small.
Hag stones are stones, by the way are stones that have a naturally occurring hole in the middle of it and can
often be found in rivers and streams.
The last fairy I’m going to cover today is the Covenmop.
the Covenmop is a very shiny creature that hides in dark corners.
It is the thing that is responsible for feelings of being watched when you’re in the dark.
It’s because you are being watched.
The Covenmop is very curious and enjoys human company - but only if it’s not observed.
It spends most nights watching sleeping humans.
In this way, it’s gained a reputation as a bit sinister, but also as a sleep guardian said to guard against bad
dreams.
It’s a very large fairy but it can also turn invisible. However it does take a little bit of
time for it to turn invisible, and this might afford you some time to spot it.
The best times are as soon as you wake up but you will need to be very quick. Ideally the first second of
your waking day because a Covenmop had very quick reflexes and can vanish in around one
second.
You’ll see a shape that’s quite tall and skinny but also rather blurred.
It looks like a smudge of a human figure but more elegant and spindly.
If you do see the Covenmop, just say calmly something like “Hello.
You don’t need to be afraid.
I know you’re here.
You don’t need to hide.
You’re very welcome to stay around here and relax.”
Then the Covenmop may choose your make themselves visible again.
But probably not because - as I said - they’re very shy.
So those are three household fairies that I've chosen for today's video and you may be lucky enough to see any of those around your house.
Please let me know in the comments if you do!
Let me know if this is the kind of video you’d like to see more of.
There are obviously a LOT more fairies and I’ve not even scratched the surface with, but
I thought these three were quite interesting.
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