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Shopiltees, Silvani, Skogrsa, Sleigh Beggy, Snow Faeries,



Snow Queen, Spriggans, Spunkies, Succubi and Incubi, Sylphs, Sylvans



Shopiltees


Land of Origin: The Shetland and Orkney Islands.
Other Origins: They may have come to the islands from Norway.
Other Names: Sea Horses.
Element: Water.
Appearance and Temperament:
Shopiltees are playful little water horses which have not been reported as having been seen for more than a hundred years.
Lore: Unknown.
Lore:
It is believed that these playful sprites of the North Sea have died out. But once they heavily populated the Sea and were playful and friendly with both sailors and with persons along the seashore.
Where to Find Them:
Seek them in Faeryland. Seek them in Faeryland. Use your energy to create thought-forms of them which may enable us to astrally repopulate their species.
How to Contact:
Seek them in Faeryland. Visualize them clearly and call to them while offering your aid in helping them to exist once more.
Magickal and Ritual Help:
It has been so long since humans have had contact with Shopiltees that it is hard to say what aid they might be to us. But they are likely to look with great kindness and gratitude to anyone who can help repopulate their species.

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Silvani


Land of Origin: Italy.
Other Origins: Possibly Greece.
Other Names: None known.
Element: Air.
Appearance and Temperament:
Silvani are winged wood nymphs who have a very filmy appearance, almost ghostly. They are of no use to humans, but do not seek to harm us. They wear red clothes and animal furs, particularly goat skins.
Time Most Active: All year.
Lore:
These harmless faeries do not look whole when they are seen, but this may simply be the way they look when manifesting on the physical plane. Humans appear much the same way in the astral world.

Silvani, whose name means "woodes," love the color red. They were it all the time and are very attracted to anything of this color. They used to be considered protectors of the Alps, but have never done anything to earn such a title. They are rarely seen anymore.

Where to Find Them: In the Italian Alps.
How to Contact: Undetermined.
Magickal and Ritual Help: Undetermined.

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Skogrsa


Land of Origin: Sweden.
Other Origins: None known.
Other Names: None known.
Element: Earth.
Appearance and Temperament: Skogrsa are short, hairy, large-nosed wood elves who are very dangerous.
Time Most Active: All year.
Lore:
These shapeshifting wood elves usually appear as owls. In the past they were often sought out as oracles, but the price they demanded for their services was very high and dangerous. Do not let them lure you into playing their game by believing their claims that they know something important which they have to tell you.

Though they are rarely seen anymore, they still have the reputation of being a hazardous contact.

Where to Find Them: In the woods of Sweden.
How to Contact: contact not advised!
Magickal and Ritual Help: None. There are safer methods of divination than to approach a Skogrsa.

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Sleigh Beggy


Land of Origin: The Isle of Man.
Other Origins: None known.
Other Names: Squinters.
Element: Earth.
Appearance and Temperament:
Little is known about these shy, stocky Manx faeries who live in underground burghs. It is known that they hate the taste of salt and do not like ashes or artificial light, so you are unlikely to find them in your modern home. They are believed to anger easily. The Beggys go nude and have crow's feet which make their footprints easily recognizable.
Time Most Active: Unknown.
Lore:
Manx people believe the faeries called Sleigh Beggy to have been the original inhabitants of the island, like the better-known Tuatha De Danann of Ireland. They are always spoken of in flattering terms to avoid raising their anger, though no legends state just exactly what an angry Sleigh Beggy is likely to do.

Ashes, which are hated by these faeries, are your best protection against them. Because of their hatred of ashes they also shun fire and are believed to enjoy the cold.

Where to Find Them: It is probably not advisable to seek them out, but if you want to try, look in the winter regions of Faeryland.
How to Contact: Contact not advised!
Magickal and Ritual Help: Unknown.

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Snow Faeries


Land of Origin: Europe and Asia.
Other Origins: Unknown.
Other Names:
Frost Faeries, Winter Faeries, Jack Frost, The Frost King, Old Man Winter. In Scandinavia and Japan she is the Snow Queen. In Russia he is sometimes known as Father Frost who brings death to winter travelers in his realm.
Element: Water.
Appearance and Temperament:
Snow Faeries take on many different appearances depending in which land they live in. In some lands they are trooping faeries like the Pillywiggins, who collectively help bring winter to the world. In this instance they are small, winged creatures, dressed in white. As and individual being, such as Jack Frost, he is a solitary male. No record has ever been kept of their attitudes towards humans, but they appear to have no interest in us at all.
Time Most Active: Late autumn to early spring, and mostly at night.
Lore:
Snow Faeries are not just faeries but a single pervasive personification of winter which is part of the faery lore of the entire northern hemisphere. These faeries bring on winter, encourage the snow, and paint frost on windowpanes.

In Russia the bringer of winter is an old man called the Frost King, who is a Slavic version of the English Jack Frost. In Scandinavia and Japan the bringer of winter has a female personification known as the Snow qaueen, who may have descended from a Crone Goddess. The Snow Queen of Denmark has her own kingdome with a large white palace from which she rules the winter season. Danish pagans often make libations or offerings to her to see them safely through winter. But she is a childless beauty whom Danish lore tells us is always seeking a child who would not be missed to take as her own.

Before science was able to understand the simple principles of condensation, no doubt the picturesque frost left on windowpanes during the night took on a magickal quality. For that reason, and because of the great variations in descriptions and lore about Snow Faeries, they may be no more than thought-forms.

Where to Find Them: In the winter of Faeryland, in a night winter woods, or near winter streams and lakes.
How to Contact: Unknown.
Magickal and Ritual Help: None known.

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Snow Queen


See Snow Faeries.

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Spriggans


Land of Origin: England.
Other Origins: Also known in Cornwall, where they are believed to be bodyguards to the Unseelie Court.
Other Names: None known.
Element: Air.
Appearance and Temperament:
Spriggans are small and round, but can inflate to enormous proportions by sucking in large amounts of air. On the ground they are often mistaken for sharp rocks, and they live both in the mountains and in the sky. They are dangerously malevolent.
Time Most Active: At night all year long.
Lore:
In Cornwall Spriggans are bodyguards of the Unseelie court, a flying host of evil faeries. In England they are the most unpleasant faery beings one could meet. In centuries past they were accused of leaving changelings, blighting crops, and being superb thieves, and they can command destructive winds at their will. Though they are immensely greedy, they do not like human misers and will save their worst for them.

Where to Find Them: Unknown.
How to Contact: Contact not advised!
Magickal and Ritual Help: None.

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Spunkies


Land of Origin: Scotland.
Other Origins: Celtic coutnies, and all countries where changelings were thought to be a problem.
Other Names: None known.
Element: Air.
Appearance and Temperament:
Spunkies have never been seen, but they are not friendly faeries. Reports of their appearance varies, but they are all said to be short, ugly, and long-armed.
Time Most Active: All year.
Lore:
Spunkies are stalers of "unprotected' children. In the place of the stolen infant they leave an ugly faery changeling. Spunkies may be another faery form that is merely an incomplete thought-form stemming from the unexplainable infant deaths in which a child simply failed to thrive.

Unprotected, in this sense, may mean both magically and spiritually. In more modern times the term most certainly meant without benefit of Christian baptism, and in pagan times it meant without formal dedication to the Goddess and the bestowal of a secret name.

Modern folklorists are quick to point out that Spunkies are almost unknown today. Robert Burns, Scotland's poet laureate, wrote of Spunkies, saying "...in some miry slough he sunk is Ne'er more to rise."

Where to Find Them: Unknown.
How to Contact: Spunkies probably cannot be contacted because they most likely were never more than projected fear-forms.
Magickal and Ritual Help: None.

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Succubi and Incubi


Land of Origin: Middle East.
Other Origins: India and the Orient.
Other Names: Succubus and Incubus are the singular forms.
Element: Air.
Appearance and Temperament:
Neither faery has ever been seen by human eyes, but their presence has been keenly felt by many unfortunate persons. They see humans as existing for their own perverse amusement.
Time Most Active: Allyear, but fortunately their attacks are few and far between.
Lore:
The Succubus is a female faery who sexually attacks human men, and the Incubus is a male faery who sexually attacks human women. Their unprovoked attacks have been documented throughout human history. It was once believed that anyone claiming such contact was mad an they were summarily incarcerated. But the evidence for their existence is well-documented. and their assaults are still going on today. Pick up any popular work on modern hauntings and there will be at least one story of a frightening sexual attack by an astral entity which has occurred in the last few years.

Persons who have been attacked by these malevolent spirits display mild to severe bruises and bite marks, many of them in places where they could not be self-inflicted. Women may also show torn vaginal tissue after an attack.

There are two folk remedies which may help keep them from you. A peony flower taken to bed or a cauldron in the room is said to keep away the Incubus, and bluebells or phallic-shapped magickal tools are supposed to ward off the Succubus.

Where to Find Them: Unknown.
How to Contact: Contact not advised!
Magickal and Ritual Help: None.

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Sylphs


Land of Origin: Greece and Egypt.
Other Origins: Ceremonial magick.
Other Names: Windsingers.
Element: Air.
Appearance and Temperament:
Sylphs appear as very small, winged creatures whose features are vaguely human. There are so light in color and boyd as to be virtually transparent. The wings they bear seem only to be there for show, because they appear so buoyant as to defy gravity, and they can hold themselves aloft for long periods without ever moving their tiny wings. In fact, the wings may beno more than human thought projections intended to justify to our rational minds the appearance of flight. Sylphs can be helpful to humans who seek them out.

Time Most Active: All year.
Lore:
Sylphs are native to Greece and Egypt, but they may have originally come from the Middle East, where Jewish, Arab, and Egyptian mystics declared them to be archetypal representatives of air and of the east. Today they are still representatives of air and the east in ceremonial magick. For more information on the elementals of high magick, see Gnomes, Salamanders, and Undines.

Where to Find Them: You automatically call them to your circle when you call upon the four directions.
How to Contact: See above.
Magickal and Ritual Help:
Because of their long association with ceremonial magick, Sylphs are thought to be able to aid with any ritual or magickal undertaking, especially those concerning the element of air.

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Sylvans


Land of Origin: Greece.
Other Origins: None known.
Other Names: None known.
Element: Earth.
Appearance and Temperament: Sylvans are beautiful faeries who lure humans to their deaths in the woods.
Time Most Active: All year, especially at night.
Lore:
As the name suggests, Sylvans are wood faeries, but they may be only fear-forms which grew out of the dangers of the woods, especially of the deep woods at night. There is a bit of Greek folklore about a young man names Hylas who tricked the Sylvans into letting him go by offering to bring his brothers to them.

Where to Find Them: Unknown.
How to Contact:
They may not be able to be contacted since they may not exist as more than an almost forgotten thought-form. Remnants of their energy may be found in remote regions of Faeryland.
Magickal and Ritual Help: None.

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