05-09-2013, 08:43 PM
I'd like to see fairies. Not fairy-inspired creatures with little wings and small stature, but the type of fairies that used to be called "elves" in English (before the word "fairy" overtook the older word of "elf").
Like the ones described on this page:
Faeries @ timelessmyths.com
Fairies are not cute in the older myths and legends. They are vaguely helpful at best (and that's probably if you're giving them offerings), and at worst they are outright malicious. In some cases, it's been theorized by scholarly research that these might be myths of "downgraded" gods that survived Christianization.
If they show up in Grimm, I'd like to see them as a non-Wesen type creature. (I know this was a Wesen-inspired topic, but the show has had things that are explicitly not Wesen like Volcanalis and La Llorona.)
I'd especially like to see the Washer at the Ford/bean nighe from Scottish myth. Quoting timelessmyths.com:
Like the ones described on this page:
Faeries @ timelessmyths.com
Fairies are not cute in the older myths and legends. They are vaguely helpful at best (and that's probably if you're giving them offerings), and at worst they are outright malicious. In some cases, it's been theorized by scholarly research that these might be myths of "downgraded" gods that survived Christianization.
If they show up in Grimm, I'd like to see them as a non-Wesen type creature. (I know this was a Wesen-inspired topic, but the show has had things that are explicitly not Wesen like Volcanalis and La Llorona.)
I'd especially like to see the Washer at the Ford/bean nighe from Scottish myth. Quoting timelessmyths.com:
Quote:According to the Scottish Gaelic tradition, the bean nighe was a woman who died at child birth. She was described as a woman dressed in green, but can be recognised by her webbed feet. The female figure that presaging death, but they were found at streams or lakes, washing bloodstained clothes of those who would die.
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