What magical beings live in the forests of Europe?
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Trolls                   \n\nWerewolves\n\nGryphon\n\nUnicorn\n\nSiren\n\nMermaid\n\nPhoenix \n\nCentaur\n\nLeprechaun
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I do believe in faeries, I do, I do! And so do many of my friends. Some even claim to have seen faeries When we sit around the fire telling faerie stories, They're all true. And we've all got our stories.\n\nLegend has it that faeries are immortal magickal beings, and so they aren't limited to the rules of this realm.\n\nHave you ever put something down when no one was around, and when you went back it wasn't there? Then a few days later it shows up exactly where you left it? That's what faeries do. Faeries are very playful. If you put out offerings, you get the stuff back sooner.\n\nOne time, on a camping trip, it was an especially magickal night. At some point, everyone in the camp noticed that something was missing, including a necklace from around one woman's neck. The area where we were camping was separate from any other areas and so no one came into the area. Suspecting activity of the Fae, everyone put out offerings, except for the woman who lost her necklace. She cursed the fairies. The next morning, everything was returned except the necklace. To this day, the necklace has never been found.\n\nOn another camping trip, I put my tent right in the middle of a natural faery ring. When I camp, I always have a flashlight with me at all times. The only place I could have lost it was in my tent, so I searched my tent, and the flashlight was not in there. Then I had two friends search the tent, and they couldn't find the flashlight. I put out offerings to the fae, and the next morning, the flashlight was back in my tent.\n\nAnother camp-out, We had a tarp structure in the most wind protected part of a wind protected valley. I've put up a lot of tarp structures, and it was put up very well. I've put up hundreds of tents and tarp structures, and I know what I'm doing. In and around the tarp structure where etched glass tealight holders on stands averaging about 4 feet high (it was beautiful). That night, the structure blew over (in a wind protected area) but when it fell, somehow it completely missed all of the etched glass. About mid way through the day, with no one anywhere near the structure, about half of it spontaneously stood back up.\n\nThese are just a few of my Faery stories. My friends have a great many more. We've seen many things which defy mundane explanations.
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Europe\n"Superstitious"
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Fairies actually WERE real, the people that inspired the Fairy archetype were the "Tuatha De Daannan" of ireland and scotland, a very fierce population that didnt like outside contact and hid a lot, they had this particular "height" (they were short) and they were called by outsiders "The Fairy People"... then a lot of misticism was constucted around them, because they were thoght to fly and so other things, they worshipped the goddess dana, there comes their name.\n\nAbout mermaids, dont know.
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I've met several. \n\n First, there are the energy vampires. Everyone gets their energy in different ways if they use any kind of well, power, for lack of a better term. I'm lucky- I get mine from the earth. Some people, however, get it from other people. This is only a problem if they don't know they're doing it. The unconsious energy suckers will drain and drain and never stop and never give back. You've met them, I'm sure- people who for no obvious reason are exhausting to be around. If they know they're doing it, it can be a pleasurable experience for both parties, and they won't overdo it. \n\nThere are also the modern blood drinkers. Many of these are people who drink blood to get the energy from it, but they may also drain energy psychically as well. Many of them base their outward demeanor on famous blood users of the past such as Countess Elisabet Bathory (sorry- her name was not "bloody mary") who was perhaps the most prolific serial killer in history- or Vlad Dracul (Dracula) who is regarded in his country as a great hero- not a monster. \n\nMany folkloric stories about vampires are based on diseases, actually. Slavic folklore does not distinguish between a werewolf and a vampire. Anemia could lead one to appear undead and to crave iron, and some disfigurements can lead one to look somewhat like an animal. \n\nSome kinds of fair folk in Western European folklore have been known to drink blood, as well. As for these and the traditional shapechanging, blood drinking vampires- I haven't seen them, but I don't discredit the stories entirely. The world is a weird place.
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According to Tolkien, elves are tall and stately.  They look like humans with pointy ears.  They are also immortal, but can be killed in battle or die of a broken heart.  Famous elves include Legolas, Elrond, Gil-Galad, and the Lady Galadriel.
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A faerie is a mythological class of creatures, like giants or dragons. There are many different kinds are faerie (or faery, or fairy), especially in Celtic mythology, though similar beings are found in many different mythologies, including for example the Greek nymphs or Nordic elves (the short bearded kind). Pretty much, faeries are humanoid, ranging in size from a thumbtack to taller than a human, but all are obviously otherworldly and possess non-human characteristics: the long ears of Tolkeinesque elves are one example of an animal-like characteristic, while others are more obviously bestial. Faeries, like almost any magical creature, are more or less immortal, at least to natural causes. Most faeries are supposed to be very shy of humans, but some are said to need, want, or enjoy human company, at least at times.\n\nPixies are a specific kind of faerie (like a poodle is a specific kind of dog), usually depicted as somewhere between a few inches to a couple feet tall, beautiful, lean, long eared and with insect-like wings. Pixies are supposed to be mischievious, playful, whimsical, but sometimes dangerous, kind of like children no matter their apparent age. Tinkerbell would probably be considered a pixie, but of course still a faerie.
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No - they are usually associated with the middle east.  The only reference to griffins living in the north of Europe is in the works of the Greek historian Herodotos who describes the northern land of Hyperborea being full of griffins.
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5000 huh, thats a long time.  Redwoods live hundreds.  I think there is a pine on some mountain that is a few thousand years old.  Maybe an olive tree.
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There are so many legends pertaining to elves and their ability to be killed that this is a difficult question. Not to mention that "elf," like "fairy" is a somewhat generic term and can be applied to sprites, brownies, pookah, leprechauns, sidhe, boggins, and a whole mess of others!\n\nTraditional European folklore says that elves (and most fae) can be killed by cold-forged iron.  Western Europeans added an additional stipulation--if bound in coldiron, elves lose their powers and can be killed by mundane means.  The Irish held that elves can be disbelieved out of existance; my mother swears up and down that being treated like a human being and suffering through a banal existence for too long will turn an elf human, thus making it mortal and killing it. (I think her theory is based on the Whitewolf RPG Changeling) Some Eastern folklore deals with elemental spirit guardians, which might be classified as "elves," who are immortal but become weak and can be killed when they are removed from their element of power--wood-elves can't survive at sea, etc.  \n\nThere's other folklore stating that elves lose their powers at full moon, at new moon, at solstices and equinoxes--there's other lore stating they get STRONGER at these times.  I've also heard of elves that can only die by sacrificing themselves; or that they can't die at all, but can be kept sleeping forever, trapped in rocks and stones and streams.
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"The Elm Chanted Forest"?
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I love fairy's.  My grandmother always believed in fairy's.  I frequent an area of woods that is absolutely magical.  Mosses and wildflowers, native trout, orange salamanders, mushrooms and waterfalls.  A PERFECT place for fairy's!!!
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I'm going to have to go with Angels. I have read a few books on Angels and I guess they are more excepted as being real while fairies are in the same catergory as leprachuans. OK. I am going to tell you the truth. I believe in it all. Faeries, leprachuans, hollow earth. All of it. \nLove & Light\nSharon
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I do believe in faeries, I do, I do! And so do many of my friends. Some even claim to have seen faeries When we sit around the fire telling faerie stories, They're all true. And we've all got our stories.\n\nHave you ever put something down when no one was around, and when you went back it wasn't there? Then a few days later it shows up exactly where you left it? That's what faeries do. Faeries are very playful. Most cultures have stories of playful little magickal creatures. They have lots of different names in each mythology, but I know them as faeries. If you put out offerings, you get the stuff back sooner.\n\nOne time, on a camping trip, it was an especially magickal night. At some point, everyone in the camp noticed that something was missing, including a necklace from around one woman's neck. The area where we were camping was separate from any other areas and so no one came into the area. Suspecting activity of the Fae, everyone put out offerings, except for the woman who lost her necklace. She cursed the fairies. The next morning, everything was returned except the necklace. To this day, the necklace has never been found.\n\nOn another camping trip, I put my tent right in the middle of a natural faery ring. When I camp, I always have a flashlight with me at all times. The only place I could have lost it was in my tent, so I searched my tent, and the flashlight was not in there. Then I had two friends search the tent, and they couldn't find the flashlight. I put out offerings to the fae, and the next morning, the flashlight was back in my tent.\n\nAnother camp-out, We had a tarp structure in the most wind protected part of a wind protected valley. I've put up a lot of tarp structures, and it was put up very well. I've put up hundreds of tents and tarp structures, and I know what I'm doing. In and around the tarp structure where etched glass tealight holders on stands averaging about 4 feet high (it was beautiful). That night, the structure blew over (in a wind protected area) but when it fell, somehow it completely missed all of the etched glass. About mid way through the day, with no one anywhere near the structure, about half of it spontaneously stood back up.\n\nA friend recently posted in her blog that she had lost a piece off her necklace, and it was no where to be found. One day her husband found it, right where he had been standing barefoot moments earlier, in plain sight, and in a spot where she had vacuumed earlier. There it was, in a place in plain sight where it hadn't been earlier\n\nThe trick is to make offerings to the fae OUTSIDE of your house. Preferably far outside your house, like at a nearby state park. They like honey. They also like shiny bobbles. Be sure to respect their sacred spaces, and possibly give them a little faery altar (which can be as simple as three flat rocks placed on top of each other with something shiny sitting on it. They also like shiny things tied to trees.\n\nThese are just a few of my Faery stories. My friends have a great many more. We've seen many things which defy mundane explanations.
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Angels are from Heaven and fairies are mythical creatures(fairies do not exist)
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I have been visited by Gods and Godesses )0(\n\nAs for Fairies, I do believe in faeries, I do, I do! And so do many of my friends. Some even claim to have seen faeries When we sit around the fire telling faerie stories, They're all true. And we've all got our stories.\n\nHave you ever put something down when no one was around, and when you went back it wasn't there? Then a few days later it shows up exactly where you left it? That's what faeries do. Faeries are very playful. If you put out offerings, you get the stuff back sooner.\n\nOne time, on a camping trip, it was an especially magickal night. At some point, everyone in the camp noticed that something was missing, including a necklace from around one woman's neck. The area where we were camping was separate from any other areas and so no one came into the area. Suspecting activity of the Fae, everyone put out offerings, except for the woman who lost her necklace. She cursed the fairies. The next morning, everything was returned except the necklace. To this day, the necklace has never been found.\n\nOn another camping trip, I put my tent right in the middle of a natural faery ring. When I camp, I always have a flashlight with me at all times. The only place I could have lost it was in my tent, so I searched my tent, and the flashlight was not in there. Then I had two friends search the tent, and they couldn't find the flashlight. I put out offerings to the fae, and the next morning, the flashlight was back in my tent.\n\nAnother camp-out, We had a tarp structure in the most wind protected part of a wind protected valley. I've put up a lot of tarp structures, and it was put up very well. I've put up hundreds of tents and tarp structures, and I know what I'm doing. In and around the tarp structure where etched glass tealight holders on stands averaging about 4 feet high (it was beautiful). That night, the structure blew over (in a wind protected area) but when it fell, somehow it completely missed all of the etched glass. About mid way through the day, with no one anywhere near the structure, about half of it spontaneously stood back up.\n\nA friend recently posted in her blog that she had lost a piece off her neclace, and it was no where to be found. One day her husband found it, right where he had been standing barefoot moments earlier, in plain sight, and in a spot where she had vacuumed earlier. There it was, in a place in plain sight where it hadn't been earlier\n\nThe trick is to make offerings to the fae OUTSIDE of your house. Preferably far outside your house, like at a nearby state park. They like honey. They also like shiny bobbles. Be sure to respect their sacred spaces, and possibly give them a little faery altar (which can be as simple as three flat rock placed on top of each other with something shiny sitting on it. They also like shiny things tied to trees.\n\nThese are just a few of my Faery stories. My friends have a great many more. We've seen many things which defy mundane explanations.
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Golems\n\nThere are others