Introduction

The Victorian belief in fairies is described: "In an increasingly urban, industrialized society, fairies provided imaginative refuge from harsh, Dickensian reality--nostalgic remnants of past cultures, embodying the elemental forces of nature. Fairies challenged science's expanding powers of microscopic observation--presenting a world so tiny it could be seen only with the mind's eye. In a time of colonial expansion, they personified an archaic Otherness deep within English society. They were at home amid the hallucinations of a drug culture fuelled by Orientalism, which embraced hashish, opium, and laudanum, that "aspirin of the nineteenth century. In a pre-Freudian era, they offered a nearly uncensored vision of unrestrained human drives and impulses". (Leslie Camhi 1998)

Even in the twenty first century, we have the need for fairies to help us to rise above the trials and tribulations of everyday life. This web site is dedicated to these beautiful creatures.