The Origin of Fairies
Fairy tales are pagan or non Christian art form. Their emergence was largely dependent on the social condition of its location of reference. Folk tales were conceived as a solid and imperishable high structured world linked to monarchy in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Everything is confined to a realm without mortals. The stories were usually rooted in an inexplicable desire to overcome oppression and the urgent need to change society. Shaping art forms and their transmissions articulate the voices and interest of the country folk voices and interest in the hope that the tales may provide counsel and moral learning from how they exposed the drive for power of government and church leaders.
The Catholic Church offered an explanation of the fairies origin. Fairies were believed to be the fallen angels that were cast to earth as punishment (Taylor & Beauregard 2003). They then live a different supernatural sphere apart from humans but very well have the ability to interfere with human affairs for their good or bad intentions. Their dwelling place is upon the earth and inside the earth. Therefore they coexist with the humans. Some people believes that fairies are the souls of the dead who wanders in Netherland because they are taken as in-between like not too good enough to enter heaven or too bad to go to hell. Some culture also believes that they were ancestors of ancient pagan gods or nature spirits that have the ability to populate all places and things. Fairies were known to have originated in the Celtic and Norse regions.